Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1961. Cottage.
Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ancient-belfry-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Cottages, 1 and 2, the Street, Gestingthorpe
- OS grid reference
- TL 811 385
- Coordinates
- 52.01559, 0.63883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottages is a pair of cottages that date back to the 16th century or earlier. They are constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof featuring two gabled dormers. The cottages have central and left red brick chimney stacks and are one storey high with attics. The ground floor has a four-window range of two-light casements, while the dormer windows, which are also from the 16th century, consist of three lights with diamond leaded glass, moulded frames, and mullions. The bargeboards and cornice are both moulded and dentilled.
Local climate
Church Cottages 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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