The Willows is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. A C17 Cottage.
The Willows
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-pinnacle-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Willows, Ashen Road, Ovington
- OS grid reference
- TL 764 421
- Coordinates
- 52.04985, 0.57149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Willows is a cottage that dates back to the 17th century or earlier. It is one storey with attics and features a two-storey extension from the 19th or 20th century on the right. The original structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped to the left. The right extension has a grey slate roof. There are red brick and plastered chimney stacks, one on the left and another on the right extension. The cottage has a 1:1 window arrangement and vertical boarded doors located at the centre and the left return. Inside, the roof is constructed with side purlins, and the floors are made of oak boards. The first floor has 18th-century beaded walling.
Local climate
The Willows 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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