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
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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