Leighs Lodge Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage.
Leighs Lodge Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ruined-slate-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Leighs Lodge Cottages, 1 and 2, Felsted
- OS grid reference
- TL 704 191
- Coordinates
- 51.84535, 0.47376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leighs Lodge Cottages are a pair of cottages that date back to the 16th century or earlier, with a modern extension added to the rear. The cottages are one storey high with an attic, featuring two catslide dormers. They have a half hipped gambrel roof covered with red plain tiles. The structure is timber framed and plastered, and it includes five 20th-century casement windows. There are doors from the early 20th century on the left and right return walls, as well as two external and one central red brick chimney stack.
Local climate
Leighs Lodge Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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