Milkwood is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Milkwood
- WRENN ID
- burning-marble-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Milkwood, Ovington Road, CO10 8JZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 768 420
- Coordinates
- 52.04872, 0.57747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milkwood is a cottage dating back to the 16th century, with later additions and alterations, and a rear extension. It is a timber-framed building, now plastered, with a projecting crosswing to the right. The thatched roof extends to the left of the crosswing, creating a porch. The cottage is one storey high with attics. It has a regular arrangement of small, multi-paned casement windows. A 20th-century plank and muntin door is fitted with a window to its side. A red brick chimney stack is visible on the right side of the building.
Local climate
Milkwood 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- 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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