Vicarage Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. House. 4 related planning applications.
Vicarage Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-gargoyle-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vicarage Cottage, Braintree Road, Great Bardfield, CM7 4RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 678 303
- Coordinates
- 51.94669, 0.4413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or possibly earlier, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and has plaster walls with a thatched roof. The building originally had three bays facing west, with a central stack creating a lobby-entrance. A 20th-century external stack is located on the right side. A single-storey extension has been added to the rear. The cottage is primarily one storey high, with attics above. There are two windows on the front, with 20th-century casements; the upper windows are set in eyebrow dormers. A 20th-century door is set within a 20th-century catslide thatched porch.
Local climate
Vicarage 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 0.3°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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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