Chapel Cottage Swans Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Chapel Cottage Swans Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-arch-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chapel Cottage Swans Cottage, 48, Walden Road, Sewards End, CB10 2LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 570 382
- Coordinates
- 52.02072, 0.28783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Cottage and Swans Cottage are a pair of semi-detached cottages located on Walden Road in Sewards End, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. They are timber-framed and rendered, featuring a thatched gabled roof. Each cottage is one storey with attics and has a central ridge stack, along with 20th-century gambrel plain tiled roofed extensions on their flanks.
No. 46 has one eyebrow dormer window with a 19th-century two-light casement that includes a single horizontal glazing bar. The ground floor features a similar window and a catslide thatched roofed porch. No. 48 has two eyebrow dormers, each with a 20th-century two-light casement. Its ground floor has a similar window and a larger catslide porch.
Both cottages include inglenooks and an oven door opening. Inside, there are stop-chamfered spine beams and partitions with curved bracing interrupting the studs, which are exposed with infill removed in No. 48. The cottages also have short principal rafters linked by collars, with superimposed purlins and short jack rafters above.
Local climate
Chapel Cottage Swans Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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