Pollyanna Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. House.
Pollyanna Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-tower-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pollyanna Cottage, Broxted
- OS grid reference
- TL 570 259
- Coordinates
- 51.91007, 0.28142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pollyanna Cottage is a 17th century or earlier house that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a half hipped thatched roof. The building is one storey high with attics and has a six-window range with small modern casements. There is one gabled dormer and 17th century red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Pollyanna 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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