Village Hall Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1974. A C18 Cottage.

Village Hall Cottage

WRENN ID
nether-truss-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1974
Type
Cottage
Address
Village Hall Cottage, the Cross, Elsenham, CM22 6DG
OS grid reference
TL 538 263
Coordinates
51.91414, 0.23496
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Village Hall Cottage is an early 18th century timber-framed and plastered house. It has one storey and attics, featuring casement windows and a boarded door. The roof is tiled, dating from the 20th century, and includes one sloping roofed dormer on the front and a central chimney stack. At the south end, there is a modern weather-boarded addition with a lean-to roof.

Local climate

Village Hall 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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