Hillside Cottage (East of Claypits Farm) is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Hillside Cottage (East of Claypits Farm)
- WRENN ID
- guardian-lead-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hillside Cottage (East of Claypits Farm), Bardfield Road, Thaxted, CM6 2LP
- OS grid reference
- TL 616 308
- Coordinates
- 51.95236, 0.35105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillside Cottage, located east of Claypits Farm on Thaxter Bardfield Road, is a 16th-century or earlier cottage. It is timber-framed with rendered plaster walls and has a thatched half-hipped roof. The cottage is one storey high with attics. It has two windows, now with modern leaded casements, and a single "eyebrow" dormer. A red brick chimney stack is present. A modern date plaque is affixed to the building, inscribed with the date 1539.
Local climate
Hillside Cottage (East of Claypits Farm) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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