Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-wattle-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatch Cottage, Stebbing Green, CM6 3TE
- OS grid reference
- TL 680 235
- Coordinates
- 51.88509, 0.44076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage is a cottage from the 17th or 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It has a timber frame and is plastered, featuring a jettied section on the right. The roof is thatched and includes three flat-headed dormers. The building is one storey with attics and has a three-window range of diamond leaded casements. There is a 20th-century red tiled, enclosed gabled porch with a two-centre arched headed door to the right. The cottage is topped with two red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Thatch Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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