Little Beechwood is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Little Beechwood
- WRENN ID
- grim-postern-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Beechwood, Puttock End, Belchamp Walter, CO10 7BD
- OS grid reference
- TL 805 404
- Coordinates
- 52.0332, 0.63109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Beechwood is a cottage dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a gabled roof that was originally thatched but is now covered with pantiles. The building features a central ridge line, a rectangular stack, and two gabled dormers on the south side. There is a central 20th-century gabled porch and 20th-century diamond leaded light casement windows. Inside, there is much reused timber and a double-sided inglenook fireplace that includes a reused moulded timber mantel beam. At the rear, there is a gabled 20th-century extension with a catslide porch.
Local climate
Little Beechwood 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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