Four Elms Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. A C16 Cottage.

Four Elms Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Four Elms Cottage, Bardfield Road, the Salings
OS grid reference
TL 695 274
Coordinates
51.9199, 0.4636
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Four Elms Cottage is a cottage with origins dating back to the 16th century, featuring later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof that has a gabled dormer on the right side. The cottage has a central gault brick chimney stack and a red brick external chimney stack on the left. It is one storey high with attics and has a three-window range of two-light diamond leaded casements. There is an off-centre, one storey and attic gabled porch extension covered with red tiles, which includes 20th-century three-light leaded windows and a vertically boarded door. To the left, there is a single storey, 20th-century red tiled extension. Inside, the cottage features an exposed two-bay timber frame, with the northern bays being an extension from the 18th century or later.

Local climate

Four Elms 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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