Dolls Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Residential building. 5 related planning applications.
Dolls Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-sentry-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- Dolls Cottage, the Row, Henham, CM22 6AT
- OS grid reference
- TL 547 284
- Coordinates
- 51.93293, 0.24912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolls Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered building, primarily one storey with attics, and features a two-storey section at the west end that has a jettied upper storey. The cottage has casement windows and a thatched roof, which includes two dormer windows. At a later date, Dolls Cottage was connected to Thatch End by an infill bay between the main blocks.
Local climate
Dolls 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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