Oak Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1982. A Medieval Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-landing-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Broad Street, Hatfield Broad Oak, CM22 7JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 549 164
- Coordinates
- 51.82509, 0.24734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a 15th-century cottage located on the north west side of Broad Street in Hatfield Broad Oak. It is a timber-framed building, with the south west end plastered and white-boarded. The roof is thatched, hipped at the south west and hipped with a gablet at the other end. A small ridge stack is present. The windows are 20th-century leaded light casements, and there is a single-storey, 20th-century rear extension with a hipped slate roof. The cottage originally comprised a small open hall house with a two-bay hall, a parlour with a solar above at the north east end, and a service room at the south west end. It is a remarkably complete small house, retaining remains of a crown post roof, some diamond mullioned windows, and halved and bridled scarf joints.
Local climate
Oak Cottage 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 2009
- 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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