Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-lime-hemlock
- 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
- Gate Cottage, Berden, CM23 1BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 477 295
- Coordinates
- 51.94488, 0.14785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gate Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house. It has a weather-boarded ground storey and was renovated in the 20th century. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window front, featuring small casement windows. A modern gabled porch projects from the front of the building. The roof is thatched and hipped at both the east and west ends, with a central square chimney stack.
Local climate
Gate Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- 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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