Cottesbrook is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1978. House.

Cottesbrook

WRENN ID
lost-rubble-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1978
Type
House
Address
Cottesbrook, Brook Street, Great Bardfield
OS grid reference
TL 677 305
Coordinates
51.94791, 0.43873
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cottesbrook is a house from the early 19th century, with a late 19th-century workshop that has been converted into a garage. The house is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It faces north and features one internal stack at the right end and another in the rear pitch. The building is two storeys high and has two splayed bays with late 19th-century sash windows, each with a configuration of 2-6-2 lights. On the first floor, there are two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights. The central entrance has a half-glazed door topped with a gabled hood supported by scrolled brackets, which is a 20th-century addition. The workshop, located on the right side, is constructed of flint and red brick up to the first floor level, with timber framing and weatherboarding above, and has a low-pitched slate roof. The front features 20th-century garage doors, and there are rear extensions to the building.

Local climate

Cottesbrook 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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