Broom Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Broom Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-spindle-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Broom Cottage, the Street, Gosfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 295
- Coordinates
- 51.93604, 0.59246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Broom Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with some later alterations. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a red plain tiled roof and features two red brick chimney stacks. The cottage has two storeys and attics, with two windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor. The windows include various 19th-century casements and horizontal sliding sashes, with shutters on the ground floor. There is a 20th-century enclosed gabled porch that has sidelights and a panelled door with a light.
Local climate
Broom Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- No related consent applications matched
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