Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-foundation-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Oak Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 822 327
- Coordinates
- 51.96351, 0.65117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with some later alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame and has plastered walls featuring batten decoration. The roof is half-hipped and covered with red tiles, and it includes two 19th-century grey slate catslide dormers. There is a central chimney stack made of red brick. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a two-window range of diamond leaded casements. There are 20th-century half-glazed doors on both the left and right sides, and flat carved canopies supported by chains from the top plate.
Local climate
Oak Cottage 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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