Clock Tower Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. A C18 Cottage.

Clock Tower Cottage

WRENN ID
second-quartz-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Clock Tower Cottage, Hawkins Hill, Little Sampford
OS grid reference
TL 659 335
Coordinates
51.97592, 0.41467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clock Tower Cottage is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered building with a thatched roof, located in Little Sampford. It has been renovated and consists of one storey with attics. The cottage features modern casement windows with leaded lights and a central ridge chimney stack. There is a modern weather-boarded gabled porch at the front, along with a modern addition on the west end.

Local climate

Clock Tower Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

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