Cottage, North West of Wrens is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1983. Cottage.
Cottage, North West of Wrens
- WRENN ID
- late-outpost-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cottage, North West of Wrens, Lindsell
- OS grid reference
- TL 635 285
- Coordinates
- 51.93162, 0.37746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage located north-west of Wrens, dating from the 18th century. It is timber framed, with a plastered and weatherboarded exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has one storey and features a two-window range with 20th-century casements. There is an original central red brick chimney stack, and a lower range at the south end that has a hipped thatched roof.
Local climate
Cottage, North West of Wrens 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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