Silver Leys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Silver Leys Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-barrel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Silver Leys Cottage, Felsted, CM6 3NF
- OS grid reference
- TL 694 208
- Coordinates
- 51.86016, 0.45867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Silver Leys Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It has one storey and an attic, topped with a red plain tile roof featuring three gabled dormers. The structure is timber framed, with parts that are plastered and others that are weatherboarded. On the ground floor, there are two small paned casement windows, and to the left, there is a garage door. The cottage has a central 20th-century enclosed gabled porch with a panelled door and a red brick chimney stack on the right.
Local climate
Silver Leys Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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