Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Chestnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-brick-vermeil
- 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
- Chestnut Cottage, Newport Road, Wicken Bonhunt, CB11 3UG
- OS grid reference
- TL 500 333
- Coordinates
- 51.9782, 0.18354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Cottage is a cottage that was originally a pair of cottages, built around 1750. It was converted into a single cottage in the 1950s and extended at the rear in the 1970s. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a pantiled roof and a central brick chimneystack. It has two storeys with a front elevation that includes two upper windows and four lower windows, all of which are casement windows. The upper windows are mid-19th century casements, while the ground floor windows are early 19th century cast iron casements with leaded lights. A 20th-century doorcase is located on the extreme right, replacing the original doorcases that were central to each cottage.
The rear elevation includes a tiled lean-to on the ground floor. Inside, the cottage has a frame with a spine beam that has a chamfer and run-out stops. The fireplaces are from the 20th century, but there may be an open fireplace hidden behind them. Each ground floor room features a boarded cupboard, plank doors, and two original winder staircases, although one has been removed.
Local climate
Chestnut 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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