Polley Luray Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Polley Luray Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-pewter-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Polley Luray Cottage, School Lane, Takeley
- OS grid reference
- TL 569 245
- Coordinates
- 51.89776, 0.27985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Polley Luray Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Takeley School Lane in Molehill Green. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has one storey and attics, featuring a range of four windows with modern casements. It also has 17th-century red brick chimney stacks and a modern porch. Inside, some of the original exposed frame can still be seen.
Local climate
Polley Luray 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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