Tweed Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House.
Tweed Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-spire-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tweed Cottage, Tilbury Road, Great Yeldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 759 387
- Coordinates
- 52.01942, 0.56318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tweed Cottage is a house dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a thatched roof. The building has an L-shape, with wings extending to the north and east, and includes an axial chimney stack in each wing, along with an external chimney stack at the end of the east wing, which is from the 19th century. The cottage is single-storey with attics.
On the north elevation, there are two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and two more on the first floor, one of which is located in a gabled dormer. The exterior retains much of the original or early pargetting, which is saw-pricked in panels with moulded borders, making it a valuable survival, despite some minor 20th-century repairs done in a similar style. Inside, the cottage features exposed framing, with the main timbers made of good straight hardwood, which are pegged, while the studs are nailed. The north wallplate shows a face-halved and bladed scarf joint.
Local climate
Tweed 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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