Cob Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage.
Cob Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-corbel-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cob Cottage, the Street, High Roothing, CM6 1NP
- OS grid reference
- TL 603 173
- Coordinates
- 51.83153, 0.32543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cob Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with a 20th-century rear extension. It features a timber frame, plastered exterior, and a thatched roof. The building consists of two bays and has a 19th-century external chimney stack at the northeast gable. It is a single storey with attics.
On the ground floor, there is one three-light casement window, one two-light casement window, and a boarded door with a small iron grille over a glass pane, all of which are from the 20th century. Additionally, there is a 20th-century two-light casement window in a gabled dormer in the northeast bay. The roof is half-hipped at the southwest end only.
Inside, there are jowled storey posts and a cambered central tie beam that has been severed for a door. The axial ceiling beams include one that is stop-chamfered in the southwest bay, while the other is plastered over. The partition between the ground floor rooms has been stripped to expose the framing. A photograph from the National Monuments Record shows that the cottage has seen little external alteration since the 1930s, despite recent renovations. At that time, it had a weatherboarded dado on the front elevation, which is now gone, and the southwest ground floor window was originally two lights but has been changed to three. The door was also plain at that time, with no other significant changes noted. The cottage was listed as Grade III in April 1952 under its current name.
Local climate
Cob 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings