The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-step-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White Cottage, Little Henham
- OS grid reference
- TL 531 302
- Coordinates
- 51.94943, 0.22666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered building designed in an L-shaped plan. The east end is weather-boarded. It stands two storeys high, featuring a three-window arrangement on the north front and a two-window arrangement on the west front, both with modern casements. The north front includes a central doorway topped with a cornice hood. The roof is hipped and tiled, with small gables, and there is an external chimney stack at the south end with rectangular shafts.
Local climate
The White 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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