Blatches is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. House.

Blatches

WRENN ID
gaunt-pedestal-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Blatches, Bramble Lane, Little Dunmow
OS grid reference
TL 668 221
Coordinates
51.87296, 0.42272
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blatches is a house dating from the 16th century, designed in an L-shape. It features a timber frame and is rendered with rough cast, topped with a plain red tiled roof. The building has three range casement windows and an off-centre board door, which is sheltered by a wooden gabled porch supported by brackets. There is a brick plinth and an off-centre red brick chimney stack that serves an original fireplace. Inside, the house has chamfered bridging joists and some 18th-century internal doors.

Local climate

Blatches 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 0.3°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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