Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
blind-courtyard-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Thatched Cottage, Aythorpe Roding, CM6 1PQ
OS grid reference
TL 596 142
Coordinates
51.80447, 0.31374
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatched Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Aythorpe Roding. It features a timber-framed structure with weatherboarded gable walls and plastered sides, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has three bays and a lobby entrance, with a T-plan stair located behind the stack. There is a 19th-century lean-to at the rear. The building is single storey with attics, and it has a gabled dormer at the front of the west bay. The framing is exposed internally in the lower east room and both upper rooms.

Local climate

Thatched 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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