Numbers 5 and 6 Levitt's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. A Victorian Cottages.

Numbers 5 and 6 Levitt's Cottages

WRENN ID
dusk-spandrel-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 May 1984
Type
Cottages
Period
Victorian
Address
Numbers 5 and 6 Levitt's Cottages, Finchingfield Road, Stambourne
OS grid reference
TL 713 375
Coordinates
52.00967, 0.49489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 5 and 6, Levitt's Cottages, are a pair of attached cottages dating from the early 19th century. They are constructed of clay lump and are plastered, with thatched roofs. The cottages are aligned approximately northeast to southwest and have a northwest aspect. Each cottage is one room deep, with two rooms on each floor and a central chimney stack.

At the rear, there is a single-storey ancillary building with a slate roof, forming a T-plan. The cottages are single-storey with attics and feature two plain boarded doors set in simple slated gabled porches. There are two early 20th-century wooden casement windows, one 19th-century cast iron casement window with 12 lights, and two slated lean-to dormers with early 20th-century wooden casement windows. The roofs are half-hipped at both ends.

On the northeast elevation, there is one 19th-century cast iron casement window with 24 lights on each floor. The southwest elevation has one cast iron window on the first floor and one early 20th-century wooden casement window on the ground floor. These cottages are an unusually unaltered example of their type, with few others surviving in comparable condition.

Local climate

Numbers 5 and 6 Levitt's Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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