Blackleys 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.
Blackleys
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blackleys, Milch Hill, Felsted, CM3 1QF
- OS grid reference
- TL 721 205
- Coordinates
- 51.85705, 0.499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackleys is a 15th-century cottage that originally featured an open hall and a crosswing, though it has been altered and recently restored. The building is two storeys high and has a plain red tiled roof with two levels and an outshot on the left side. It is timber framed and plastered, adorned with decorative pargetting. The left range has two gabled dormers and six plain 20th-century casement windows. There is a 20th-century enclosed porch with a gabled plain tiled roof and a panelled door. The cottage has two red brick chimney stacks. Inside, there is a crown post roof structure in the left building, with curved braces supporting the wall. The interior also features a late 17th-century or early 18th-century door and an 18th-century fire surround.
Local climate
Blackleys 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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