Ashtree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Ashtree Cottage

WRENN ID
errant-cupola-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Ashtree Cottage, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1DL
OS grid reference
TL 622 218
Coordinates
51.87207, 0.35559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ashtree Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a gabled thatched roof. The building is one storey high with attics, and it has a single eyebrow dormer on the front roof slope. The windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights. There is a brick chimney stack on the southwest gable end and a 20th-century flat-roofed extension at the rear and southwest end. Inside, the cottage reveals two bays of timber framing with unjowled posts, straight bracing that cuts through the studs, and well-crafted chamfered floor joists. Although small, the cottage showcases substantial late framing.

Local climate

Ashtree 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 — 4 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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