Mission Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Mission Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-wicket-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mission Cottage, Blackmore End Road, Wethersfield, CM7 4DD
- OS grid reference
- TL 738 309
- Coordinates
- 51.94957, 0.5282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mission Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a thatched roof. The building has four bays facing northeast, with axial stacks located in the second bay from the left end. A 20th-century rear extension has been added. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes three 20th-century casement windows, plus an additional one in a gabled dormer. There is a 20th-century door set in a thatched gabled porch. Inside, the cottage has jowled posts, straight braces rising at the corners, a face-halved and bladed scarf in the front wallplate, and a clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing. The two right bays have been used as a Mission Hall in the 20th century, which is open from ground to roof, and the current floor was inserted around 1974.
Local climate
Mission 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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