Clerks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. House.

Clerks Cottage

WRENN ID
lesser-truss-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Clerks Cottage, Church Lane, Tilty
OS grid reference
TL 599 265
Coordinates
51.9142, 0.32429
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clerks Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. It has one storey and attics, featuring a two-window range with leaded casements and two gabled dormers. At the rear, there is a lean-to. The cottage is also distinguished by its 18th-century red brick chimney stacks.

Local climate

Clerks 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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