Tippett's Wade is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. Cottage.
Tippett's Wade
- WRENN ID
- burning-lancet-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tippett's Wade, the Street, Bradwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 805 229
- Coordinates
- 51.87553, 0.62129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tippett's Wade is a cottage dating from the 16th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with red plain tiles. The building has two bays facing south, with the gable end facing the street. There is an internal stack at the left end and an external stack at the right end. A 19th or 20th-century extension creates a catslide roof at the rear. The cottage is two storeys tall.
On the ground floor, there is one 19th-century sash window and two 20th-century sash windows, each with 12 lights. The first floor features two 18th-century sash windows, also with 12 lights, made of crown seconds glass. The entrance has a plain boarded door.
Inside, the larger left bay contains a chamfered axial beam, with plain joists of horizontal section joined to it using soffit tenons with diminished haunches, and jowled posts. This bay was originally part of a single-storey structure with an attic, which was raised by approximately 1.5 metres in the 18th century. The smaller right bay has plain joists of vertical section and full-height unjowled posts. The left bay is the remaining part of a 16th-century house that once extended further to the left, which was raised and extended to the right as much as the site allowed in the 18th century. There is a 20th-century grate in the internal stack.
Local climate
Tippett's Wade sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
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