Forest Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. A C14 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Forest Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-steel-sage
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forest Cottage, Hatfield Broad Oak, CM22 7BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 539 187
- Coordinates
- 51.84657, 0.23291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest Cottage is an early 14th-century cottage located in Hatfield Broad Oak Wood Row. It is timber framed and now pebble dashed, with a thatched gabled roof and a thatched lean-to extension on the east end. The cottage is of two storeys and includes aisles on both sides of the main block. The east gable is partly black weatherboarded, and there is a gable end stack. Windows are 20th-century casements, and a small stack is on the south roof slope.
A single bay survives of a very small aisled hall, featuring sharply curved aisle braces and a thick, cranked arcade brace. There's a splayed scarf joint with under squinted abutments and unjowled chamfered arcade posts. An inserted floor is supported by a decorated block bearing the inscription 'AB 1634.' The cottage includes a 17th-century inglenook fireplace and one good 17th-century door.
Local climate
Forest 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 95% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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