Grays Lane Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage.
Grays Lane Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-spire-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grays Lane Cottage, Wethersfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 720 318
- Coordinates
- 51.95893, 0.5032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grays Lane Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century to early 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building is aligned northwest to southeast and features an external stack at each end. There is a full-length extension on the northeast side with a catslide roof. To the northwest, there is a 19th-century single-storey extension with a lean-to roof made of black glazed pantiles, and to the southeast, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension with a felted lean-to roof. The cottage has one storey with attics.
On the southeast elevation, there is one 19th-century horizontally sliding sash window with four lights, two 19th-century casement windows, and one 20th-century casement window on the first floor. The entrance features a plain boarded door. The southwest elevation has one horizontally sliding sash window with four lights, while the northwest elevation has two 19th-century casement windows on the first floor. The interior includes hardwood framing, primary straight bracing, and stop-chamfered axial beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Grays Lane Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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