Mansarde Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Mansarde Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-mantel-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mansarde Cottage, the Street, Gosfield, CO9 1TP
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 295
- Coordinates
- 51.93561, 0.59283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mansarde Cottage is a small cottage, likely dating from the 18th century or earlier. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a red plain tiled mansard roof that includes a catslide dormer. A red brick chimney stack is located on the right side. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. There are outshots attached to the ground floor on both the left and right sides. It has two window bays featuring diamond-leaded casement windows. A vertically boarded door is positioned on the left, sheltered by a red tiled porch supported by brackets.
Local climate
Mansarde Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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