Glebe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage.
Glebe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-jade-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Glebe Cottage, Borley
- OS grid reference
- TL 841 428
- Coordinates
- 52.05362, 0.6837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glebe Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The building has one storey and attics, with a six-window range that includes small 20th-century casements. There are three gabled dormers, each with red plain tile roofs. The cottage also has original and 20th-century red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Glebe Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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