Oakfield Cottage at Butlers Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. House.
Oakfield Cottage at Butlers Farm
- WRENN ID
- vast-quoin-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oakfield Cottage at Butlers Farm, Butlers Lane, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 563 402
- Coordinates
- 52.03826, 0.27797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oakfield Cottage at Butlers Farm is a 17th-century house that features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a shingled roof and a red brick stack located off centre to the south. The building has a T-plan layout, with an older range at the front and a long central right-angled addition made of brick from the 20th century, topped with a shingled mansard roof. It stands one and a half storeys tall.
The front west elevation includes a central fully glazed door, a 'stable' type two-leaf door with an upper light at the north end, and between these doors, there is one two-light window and one single light window. To the south of the centre, there is one double casement window. An off-centre gabled dormer window with a two-light casement is located to the north, showing projecting horns that indicate it is an older addition.
On the south end elevation, the west end features a 17th-century gable with reduced rafters, collar plates, and evident clasping recesses. The ground floor has a fixed diamond lattice window and an upper two-light casement window beneath the collar. To the east, there is a large 20th-century range that includes a fully glazed door, a French window with side lights, one single window, and one three-light window, along with a garage at the east end. This elevation also has three dormer windows with swept roofs, including two three-light and one single light window. The stack is positioned towards the east end.
The north end elevation shows the original 17th-century wall plates on the west gable end. The ground floor features a broad two-light window and an upper two-light window within the gable. The east side of the 20th-century wing has a fully glazed French window and a fully glazed door at the east end, along with one three-light window, one two-light window, and two two-light dormers. The east end elevation is mostly blank, except for a round attic window. The west wall of the old block has one two-light window.
Inside, the old block has been much altered but retains slender primary braced walling and slender ceiling joists.
Local climate
Oakfield Cottage at Butlers 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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