Oak Cottage Sapling Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Oak Cottage Sapling Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-lintel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage Sapling Cottage, Orange Street, Thaxted, CM6 2LQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 612 308
- Coordinates
- 51.95313, 0.34562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sapling Cottage and Oak Cottage are an early 19th century pair of houses located on Orange Street in Thaxted. They are timber framed and plastered, topped with a grey slate roof. The buildings are two storeys high and feature a five-window range with 19th century and modern casements that include glazing bars. Red brick chimney stacks are present on both cottages.
Local climate
Oak Cottage Sapling 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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