Markhams Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Markhams Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-arch-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Markhams Cottage, Grange Road, High Easter, CM3 1HY
- OS grid reference
- TL 653 155
- Coordinates
- 51.81384, 0.39749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Markhams Cottage is a late 17th-century timber-framed cottage. It has black weatherboarding and a half-hipped peg tile roof. The cottage is of two storeys, featuring a large central rectangular ridgeline stack. A 20th-century extension, also with peg tile roofs and black weatherboarding, adjoins the southwest end. The front elevation incorporates a mix of 19th-century casement windows, some with small panes and single horizontal glazing bars, alongside a front door window with small panes and a simple pentice hood. A double inglenook stack includes two dated and initialled 18th-century bricks within the rebuilt upper part.
Local climate
Markhams 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- 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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