Old Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1983. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Rectory Cottage, Church Road, White Roothing, CM6 1RJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 563 133
- Coordinates
- 51.79733, 0.26577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Rectory Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with a 20th-century addition at the rear. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a hipped plain red tile roof. It has two storeys featuring five ranges of 20th-century casement windows. An off-centre square red brick chimney stack is present. The roof construction includes side purlins and queen struts. Inside, there is an original back-to-back fireplace and original red brick herringbone underfloor. Some original doors and catches are also retained.
Local climate
Old Rectory 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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