The Forest is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. A Medieval Cottage.
The Forest
- WRENN ID
- salt-remnant-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Forest, Hatfield Broad Oak
- OS grid reference
- TL 539 186
- Coordinates
- 51.84553, 0.23383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forest is a cottage dating from the 15th century and earlier, located in Hatfield Broad Oak. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster and a thatched roof, gabled at the north and half hipped on the south. The building is one storey high with attics and an eyebrow dormer on the west side. There is a small ridge line stack off centre and another small stack against the south flank. The windows are 20th-century metal casements with small panes, and the front door is positioned in a baffle entry in front of the stack. Originally a small open hall house, it has widely spaced studs, jowled posts, and notably curved external wall braces at both ends. There are remnants of a soot-blackened crown post or purlin rafter roof and original diamond mullioned windows. The northeast end tie beam has two pairs of very large notch lapped mortices from earlier use, and the main posts show reused features with passing brace sockets. An inglenook fireplace has been inserted, along with a wooden block inscribed with the year 1640.
Local climate
The Forest 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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