The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1967. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-lancet-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, High Street, Newport
- OS grid reference
- TL 521 339
- Coordinates
- 51.98338, 0.21403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered house that features external elements from the 18th century and has a single-storey addition from the 19th century at the north end. The building has two storeys and cellars. It includes a three-window range of double-hung sashes with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two splayed bays and a pair of central doorways that are adorned with fluted pilasters and cornices. The roof is tiled and has a central rectangular chimney stack as well as an end stack.
Local climate
The 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 0.4°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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