Beech Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1967. Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Beech Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-quoin-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beech Cottage, High Street, Littlebury, CB11 4TD
- OS grid reference
- TL 516 395
- Coordinates
- 52.03404, 0.2087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered building with 18th-century additions and alterations, located on the west side of Littlebury High Street. It stands two storeys high and features a three-window range. The upper storey has small horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars, while the ground storey includes two casements and one double-hung sash, all also with glazing bars. There are two boarded doors, and the roof is covered with old tiles, featuring a central chimney stack.
Local climate
Beech 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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