Ardsley is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Ardsley
- WRENN ID
- fossil-step-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ardsley, Gestingthorpe, CO9 3AU
- OS grid reference
- TL 813 374
- Coordinates
- 52.00627, 0.64024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber-framed and rendered with a red plain tiled roof. Red brick chimney stacks are located on the right and left sides of the building. The cottage is two storeys high with a two-window front, featuring small paned casement windows. A central gabled trellis porch with a red plain tiled roof provides access via a 20th-century glazed door. Jowled storey posts are a distinctive feature. The roof structure includes side purlins. A single-storey lean-to extension has been added to the left, incorporating 20th-century garage doors.
Local climate
Ardsley 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 — 3 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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