Cream Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
Cream Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-mortar-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cream Cottage, Newmarket Road, Great Chesterford, CB10 1NS
- OS grid reference
- TL 505 430
- Coordinates
- 52.0655, 0.19431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cream Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered house that features modern extensions at the north-west and south-east ends. The building stands two storeys high and has a four-window range of modern casements with leaded lights. The roof is covered with 20th-century pantiles and includes a central chimney stack. Inside, there is an original winder staircase located beside the fireplace.
Local climate
Cream Cottage 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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