Clare Cottage Kerry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Cottage.

Clare Cottage Kerry Cottage

WRENN ID
fossil-ledge-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1962
Type
Cottage
Address
Clare Cottage Kerry Cottage, 5, Potter Street, Sible Hedingham
OS grid reference
TL 784 334
Coordinates
51.97078, 0.59578
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clare Cottage and Kerry Cottage are two dwellings that were originally a single cottage, dating from the 17th or 18th century or possibly earlier, with later alterations. The building is timber framed and has panel plastering. It features a red plain tiled roof with some striation and three grey slate catslide dormers. There is a red brick chimney stack on the left side. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has a three-window range of vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars, along with pentice boards above. To the right, there is a small bay shop window. The central and left return sections have four-panelled doors, also with pentice boards above. There is some confusion regarding the previous listing, which referred to Clare Cottage but described No. 7.

Local climate

Clare Cottage Kerry 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 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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