Kings Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1967. A Medieval House.
Kings Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-passage-woodpecker
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Kings Cottage, Walden Road, Hadstock
- OS grid reference
- TL 559 448
- Coordinates
- 52.08039, 0.27378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered building that dates back to the 15th century but has been altered in the 17th century and later. It is designed in an L-shaped plan with a gable on the north-east side. The upper storey features exposed timber-framing on the north-east side and was formerly jettied. The building has two storeys and a two-window range on the front, consisting of double-hung sashes with glazing bars and casements. On the north-east front, there is a former shop window from the 18th or early 19th century, also with glazing bars. The roof is partly covered with pantiles and partly with tiles, and it includes a 17th-century chimney stack with grouped diagonal shafts. Inside, the building has exposed ceiling beams and joists, as well as a dragon beam and joists that likely date back to the original construction.
Local climate
Kings Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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