Amen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. House.
Amen Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-balcony-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Amen Cottage, Lamarsh Road, Alphamstone
- OS grid reference
- TL 878 354
- Coordinates
- 51.98609, 0.73488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Amen Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building has four bays aligned east to west and features an axial chimney stack located one bay from the western end. There are 20th-century single-storey lean-to extensions at both ends of the cottage. It is one storey high with attics. The north elevation includes seven 20th-century casement windows and two additional windows in gabled dormers. The entrance is at the western end. Inside, the cottage has axial beams with lamb's tongue stops and exposed joists of vertical section in the western bay. There are also two large hearths made of 17th-century brickwork, each 0.23 meters thick.
Local climate
Amen 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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