Garlands Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. A Post-medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Garlands Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-nave-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Garlands Cottage, Brent Hall Road, Finchingfield, CM7 4LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 668 332
- Coordinates
- 51.97235, 0.42794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garlands Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that has been extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with plastering and a thatched roof. The cottage has two bays facing north and includes a stack in the left return wall. At the rear, there are single-storey extensions added in the 20th century. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has a two-window range of 18th-century two-light casements, each with one wrought iron casement and rectangular leading. The upper windows are set in tiled swept dormers. There is a 20th-century door. Notably, this cottage retains the complete set of original windows, which are matching and have spring latches that are still in working order. Despite the rear extensions, the main cottage remains largely unaltered.
Local climate
Garlands Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- 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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