Calmesden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Calmesden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-beam-russet
- 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
- Calmesden Cottage, Gallows Green, Great Easton, CM6 3QS
- OS grid reference
- TL 626 271
- Coordinates
- 51.91907, 0.36403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Calmesden Cottage is a late 16th-century cottage located on the south side of Gallows Green in Great Easton. The building is timber framed and plastered with a thatched roof featuring two eyebrow dormers. It has old iron casements with rectangular leaded lights and a centrally positioned door. Two gable-end stacks are constructed of red brick, and there is a peg tile-roofed lean-to on the west end. The interior shows evidence of a small, original open hall house, comprising two bays, with arched compression braces.
Local climate
Calmesden 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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