Smarts is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Smarts
- WRENN ID
- crooked-pillar-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smarts, High Easter, CM3 1HU
- OS grid reference
- TL 641 166
- Coordinates
- 51.82413, 0.38078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smarts is a cottage dating from the late 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, featuring black weatherboarding up to the window sill height. The thatched roof slopes down to single-storey extensions at each end. The building has one storey and attics, with two eyebrow dormers on the front elevation. There are two small chimneys, one at each end of the ridge. The windows are 20th-century casements. Originally, it was an in-line open hall house that has been modified with an inserted floor and a late inglenook stack. The internal wall bracing includes both straight and cranked elements. At the east end, there is a solar or parlour, and a former diamond mullion window above the tie beam has been blocked.
Local climate
Smarts 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 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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