Elizabethan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House.

Elizabethan Cottage

WRENN ID
standing-slate-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1980
Type
House
Address
Elizabethan Cottage, High Street, Littlebury, CB11 4TD
OS grid reference
TL 516 396
Coordinates
52.03435, 0.20935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elizabethan Cottage is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered building located on the south side of Littlebury High Street. It is now a single tenement and stands two storeys high. The cottage features a three-window range with horizontal sliding sashes. The roof is tiled and has two central chimney stacks.

Local climate

Elizabethan Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 0.4°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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