Abbey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1983. House.
Abbey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-cellar-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey Cottage, Duton Hill, Great Easton
- OS grid reference
- TL 604 268
- Coordinates
- 51.91709, 0.33128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Cottage is a house dating from around 1600. It has two storeys and is constructed with a timber frame that is plastered, with the frame exposed on the front elevation. The roof is peg tiled, hipped at the east with a gablet, and gabled at the west where it connects to a neighboring building. There is a slated lean-to extension at the rear. The layout follows a baffle entry plan, featuring a service area, stack bay, hall, and a very narrow end bay with a lower girt level. The front includes a 20th-century peg tiled gabled porch hood and casement windows with small panes. A large red brick stack is positioned off-center. Visible mortices indicate where former first-floor oriel windows once existed, and there are fragments of old pargetting on the east wall. Inside, the building reveals long tapered and chamfered jowls, along with slightly cambered tie beams. The scarf joints are halved and bladed.
Local climate
Abbey 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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