May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
May Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pediment-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- May Cottage, Gould Road, Alphamstone, CO8 5HW
- OS grid reference
- TL 875 347
- Coordinates
- 51.97961, 0.72953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof made of asbestos tiles. The building consists of two bays positioned at right angles to the road, facing south, with a chimney stack located at the right end. There is an early 19th-century extension at the back and an early 20th-century lean-to extension to the rear. The cottage is one storey high with attics, while the extension is also one storey. It features six 20th-century casement windows and an additional casement window in a gabled dormer. The front has a door set within a 20th-century gabled porch. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams, exposed joists and framing, and one panel of hazel wattle exposed in the rear wall, along with original board doors.
Local climate
May 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- 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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