The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. A C16 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-keystone-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Cock Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 829 343
- Coordinates
- 51.97722, 0.66213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations. It features a timber frame and pargetted plaster, topped with a black pantiled roof that has two grey slate catslide dormers. To the left, there is a red pantiled lean-to that incorporates an external red brick chimney stack, while a red brick attached shaft chimney stack is located to the right. The building is one storey with attics and has a three-window range of 20th-century casements. An off-centre red tiled gabled porch leads to a four-panel door, with a vertically boarded door to the left. Inside, there are chamfered bridging joists and an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
The 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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