Druries Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Druries Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-bailey-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Druries Cottage, the Street, High Roothing, CM6 1NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 603 172
- Coordinates
- 51.83111, 0.32509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Druries Cottage is a 17th-century lobby-entrance house. It is timber-framed, set on high brick footings, and has a plastered exterior with a tiled roof. The cottage consists of four bays, including a chimney bay with the lobby entrance located in the third bay from the southwest. It has two storeys and features a three-window range of 20th-century metal casements, along with a small larder window at the southwest end. The entrance has a plain boarded door and does not have a porch or hood.
Local climate
Druries 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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