April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Residential. 1 related planning application.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-parapet-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- April Cottage, 68, the Street, Ashen, CO10 8JN
- OS grid reference
- TL 747 422
- Coordinates
- 52.05105, 0.54677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is an 18th-century cottage extended in the 20th century. It is built of clay lump, with roughcast rendering and a thatched roof. The cottage is aligned north-south with an external chimney stack on the north end, facing west. A single-storey lean-to extension was added to the south in the 19th or 20th century. A single-storey, flat-roofed extension is located to the northeast. A plain boarded door, with a 20th-century canopy, is present, along with two casement windows and one more within a gabled dormer. The cottage is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
April Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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