Delvyn's Cottage Including Attached Wall Enclosing Front Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Delvyn's Cottage Including Attached Wall Enclosing Front Garden
- WRENN ID
- floating-clay-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Delvyn's Cottage Including Attached Wall Enclosing Front Garden, Gestingthorpe, CO9 3AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 812 380
- Coordinates
- 52.01102, 0.63903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Delvyn's Cottage is a 17th century or earlier cottage. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof that includes a central gabled dormer. A central chimney stack is constructed of red brick. The cottage is one storey high with attics, and features a three-window front with small paned casement windows. An off-centre six-panelled door provides access. A flint and red brick wall extends to the right and left of the cottage, enclosing the front garden.
Local climate
Delvyn's Cottage Including Attached Wall Enclosing Front Garden 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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