The Garden Cottage and Adjoining Wall Enclosing Rear Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage.

The Garden Cottage and Adjoining Wall Enclosing Rear Garden

WRENN ID
sheer-trefoil-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
TL 811 461
Coordinates
52.08363, 0.64258
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Garden Cottage, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, is a cottage that features a mainly timber frame with flint dressing on the ground floor and rendering on the first floor. It has a hipped red plain tiled roof and a central red brick chimney stack. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window range of three-light casements, with drip hoods over the ground floor windows. There is a central vertically boarded door. To the left of the cottage, there is a single-storey lean-to extension that includes one small casement window. To the right, a two-storey flint wall with red brick dressing encloses the garden to the north.

Local climate

The Garden Cottage and Adjoining Wall Enclosing Rear Garden sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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