Ford Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. Cottage.
Ford Cottages
- WRENN ID
- wild-loggia-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ford Cottages, 1-4, Braintree Road, Great Dunmow
- OS grid reference
- TL 635 220
- Coordinates
- 51.87316, 0.3737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Cottages is a terrace of four cottages built in the late 18th century. The cottages are constructed from brick and timber frame, topped with a red plain tile roof. They are two storeys high and feature a lean-to at the rear. The front has a five-window range with 19th and 20th-century casements, along with four single-storey bay windows that have hipped red plain tile roofs.
Local climate
Ford Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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