The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1982. House.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-plinth-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 553 420
- Coordinates
- 52.05479, 0.26498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a house dating from around 1700, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, featuring brick, thatched, and pantiled roofs, and has an L-shaped plan. The building is one and a half storeys tall.
On the front (east) elevation, there is a four-window range with a projecting gabled porch that has thatch covering the entire structure. The porch contains a 19th-century bead-moulded boarded door and fixed 'Gothick' lancet lights on the sides. The windows include three sliding sashes with 4x4 panes and one 20th-century casement that is similar in style. There are also two dormer 'eyebrow' windows with early 20th-century 2-light casements. A stack is present that is contemporary with the house.
To the north, there is a single-storey pantiled range from the 19th century, which was extended in the 20th century. This section has one 19th-century sliding sash window with 4x3 panes and one 20th-century segment-headed casement window. The south end elevation features the house with an early 19th-century lean-to at the rear, which has continuous thatch. The ground floor includes a 20th-century 2-light casement window and a simple rear casement. The attic floor has a 20th-century sliding sash window with 4x3 panes.
On the north end elevation, the original rear house roof rafter and wall plate are exposed, with a 19th-century lean-to roof above. The attic floor has a 20th-century 3-light casement window and fixed 'Gothick' lancet lights on each side. The rear lean-to has a 20th-century top-hung casement window. The 19th and 20th-century extension partly obscures the ground floor, and the north end features a 20th-century French window with sidelights. The rear (west) elevation is obscured by a large 20th-century addition.
The interior has not been inspected, but primary braced studding is evident, and the central stack includes two back-to-back timber lintelled fireplaces.
Local climate
The Thatched 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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