Joyce's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Cottage.

Joyce's Cottages

WRENN ID
distant-cornice-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Joyce's Cottages, 1 and 2, Top Road, Wimbish
OS grid reference
TL 597 355
Coordinates
51.99529, 0.32566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Joyce's Cottages, located on the north side of Wimbish Top Road, is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th century. It has been renovated and altered over time. The structure is one storey high with attics and features small casement windows. The roof is modern and tiled, with two sloping roofed dormers and an original square chimney stack.

Local climate

Joyce's Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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