Fairhaven is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1979. Cottage.
Fairhaven
- WRENN ID
- fallen-glass-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fairhaven, Great Canfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 604 187
- Coordinates
- 51.84441, 0.3282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairhaven is a 17th or 18th century timber-framed cottage that is plastered and features a thatched roof with gabled ends. Part of the ground floor is weatherboarded. The building has one storey and an attic, with two gabled dormers that have tiled roofs. It includes casement windows with small panes, a square bay window on the left side, and a central rustic timber porch. There are external brick chimney stacks at the ends of the cottage.
Local climate
Fairhaven 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.
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