Devon Wayside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1985. Cottage.
Devon Wayside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-chalk-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Devon Wayside Cottage, Dunmow Road, Great Bardfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 672 302
- Coordinates
- 51.94531, 0.43271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Devon Wayside Cottage is a pair of cottages built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. They are timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The cottages have four bays facing northwest, a central stack, and single-storey rear extensions. They are one storey high with attics, featuring two 20th-century casement windows and two additional casement windows in eyebrow dormers. The roof is gambrel in style.
Local climate
Devon Wayside 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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