Tofts Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Tofts Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-beam-ivory
- 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
- Tofts Well Cottage, Stortford Road, Farnham, CM23 1JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 481 239
- Coordinates
- 51.89405, 0.15116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tofts Well Cottage is a 16th-century timber-framed building with plaster infill, extended at the rear with modern additions. It is a single-storey building with attics. The windows are casement types. The roofs are tiled, featuring four gabled dormers on the front elevation. The original structure has a central chimney stack and an external stack at the east end.
Local climate
Tofts Well Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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