Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1984. Cottage.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-bailey-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, the Street, High Easter, CM1 4QR
- OS grid reference
- TL 625 148
- Coordinates
- 51.8086, 0.35592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a 17th or 18th century cottage located on the south side of The Street in High Easter. It is timber framed with white weatherboarding and features a thatched half-hipped roof. The cottage has one storey with attics and includes a 20th century painted brick rear extension with a gabled peg tile roof. There is a small ridgeline stack at the center and 19th century metal small pane casement windows. The east elevation has a canted bay window with an adjoining lean-to porch hood, while the west end has a slated lean-to. Inside, there are some old internal doors and late timber framing.
Local climate
Thatched 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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