Number 3 Brook Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage.

Number 3 Brook Cottages

WRENN ID
upper-pinnacle-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Number 3 Brook Cottages, Braintree Road, Wethersfield
OS grid reference
TL 717 304
Coordinates
51.94635, 0.49698
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 3 Brook Cottages is an 18th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has two bays facing north and features an axial stack on the right side. It is part of a row of cottages, alongside Edgebrook and Rosamond. The building is one storey high with attics and includes one 20th-century casement window, along with two additional casements located in slated swept dormers. There is a 20th-century door on the left side of the building. At the time of the survey in September 1984, the cottage was undergoing major alterations.

Local climate

Number 3 Brook Cottages 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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