Clipped Hedge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage.
Clipped Hedge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-transept-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Clipped Hedge Cottage, Hatfield Heath
- OS grid reference
- TL 525 151
- Coordinates
- 51.81388, 0.21189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clipped Hedge Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a half-hipped thatched roof. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a prominent large gabled thatched dormer on the front roof slope, which is adorned with 19th-century decorative bargeboards. There are significant 20th-century thatched extensions to the rear and south ends of the building. The entrance is through an off-centre baffle entry style, with a ridgeline stack above. The windows are 20th-century leaded light casement types. Inside, the frame is exposed, showcasing many reused late 16th-century window mullions as studs, along with an inserted floor that has the date '1726' inscribed on a bridging joist. A large inglenook fireplace features an elaborately moulded mantel beam.
Local climate
Clipped Hedge 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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