The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-foundation-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Moat Street, Gestingthorpe, CO9 3AT
- OS grid reference
- TL 816 368
- Coordinates
- 52.00065, 0.64477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys, featuring a four-window range on the ground floor and a two-window range on the first floor, predominantly consisting of small paned horizontal sliding sashes. The central entrance is a four-panelled door. There are external red brick chimney stacks located on both the left and right sides of the cottage. Inside, the cottage showcases exposed chamfered beams.
Local climate
The Old 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 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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