Broadgrove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage.

Broadgrove Cottage

WRENN ID
narrow-quartz-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Broadgrove Cottage, High Easter Road, Barnston
OS grid reference
TL 642 198
Coordinates
51.85299, 0.38348
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Broadgrove Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with a rear addition. It is a single-storey building that is timber framed and plastered, topped with a plain red tiled roof. The cottage features a three-window range with diamond leaded casements. There is a 20th-century enclosed porch with a red tiled gable, and an original red brick chimney stack with a fireplace located off-center. The roof has side purlins and a halved and bladed scarf joint at the top plate, with exposed rafters. To the right, there is an external red brick chimney stack.

Local climate

Broadgrove 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 0.3°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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