Hill Green Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1991. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Hill Green Cottage

WRENN ID
frozen-sentry-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1991
Type
Cottage
Address
Hill Green Cottage, Clatterbury Lane, Clavering
OS grid reference
TL 478 322
Coordinates
51.96896, 0.15091
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Green Cottage is a cottage dating to around the late 16th century. It is timber-framed, now rendered, with a thatched half-hipped roof. The cottage is one storey and has an attic. It originally comprised five bays, with an axial stack in the former smoke bay and a service wing to the left. Around the 18th century, the cottage was divided into two units, with stairs added to each end. The front features two boarded doors and two three-light casement windows with leaded lights. There are also two eyebrow dormers, each with three-light 18th-century casement windows with leaded lights.

The interior retains much of the original timber frame, displaying jowled posts and down braces. A chamfered spine beam features run-out stops at the high end. A later floor was inserted. There are two inglenook fireplaces, one with a trefoil-headed niche for salt. Gable-end first-floor casements are in their original openings, with mortices indicating the former presence of diamond mullions. The roof is a clasped purlin roof with curved wind-braces. Original partitions and plasterwork remain.

Local climate

Hill Green Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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 0.4°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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  • Sale history — 8 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • 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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