Laundry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House. 4 related planning applications.
Laundry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-footing-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laundry Cottage, Cambridge Road, Quendon and Rickling, CB11 3XJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 515 308
- Coordinates
- 51.95537, 0.20408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laundry Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered house with a brick plinth, located on the west side of Cambridge Road in Quendon and Rickling. A later wing extends from the front at the north end. The main block features plastered panels and stands two storeys high, with three window ranges that include leaded casements. The later wing has one window range with modern casements. The entrance is accessed by steps and has a flat hood supported by brackets. The roof is tiled and includes two end chimney stacks along with a central stack on the main block.
Local climate
Laundry 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 0.4°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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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