Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Cottage.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-hall-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Fairstead Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 769 168
- Coordinates
- 51.82268, 0.56582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and plastered, featuring a thatched roof. The cottage has two bays facing south, with a stack in each gable end. There is a 19th-century extension at the rear that has a catslide roof. A single-storey extension was added to the left in the 20th century, which is roofed with red clay 'Roman' tiles. The building is one storey with attics and includes two 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century door.
Local climate
Walnut Tree 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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