Blocks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Blocks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-foundation-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blocks Cottage, Chelmsford Road, Hatfield Heath, CM22 7AY
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 143
- Coordinates
- 51.80677, 0.24077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blocks Cottage is a timber-framed cottage dating to around 1480, situated on Chelmsford Road, Hatfield Heath. Originally built as an open hall with a parlour bay to the west and a service area to the east, the cottage was later plastered and is now covered with a half-hipped thatched roof. A large thatched gable dormer and a contemporary thatched and half-hipped enclosed porch feature on the front. Windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights. A 20th-century extension now projects from the north-west corner. Inside, the exposed timber frame showcases jowled posts with curved external bracing, an octagonal stop-chamfered crown post with flattish profiled braces, and interrupted tie-beams. Traces of fixings for a former bench, baffle screens, and hood remain. The inglenook fireplace has a small ridge line stack above it.
Local climate
Blocks 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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