Wash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. A C18 Cottage.
Wash Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-corner-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wash Cottage, Finchingfield Road, Hempstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 659 398
- Coordinates
- 52.03203, 0.41735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wash Cottage is an 18th to 19th century timber-framed and plastered building. It has one storey and attics, featuring small casement windows. The roof is thatched and includes three dormers along with a central chimney stack.
Local climate
Wash Cottage 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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