Almond Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Cottage.
Almond Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-buttress-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Almond Tree Cottage, the Street, Foxearth
- OS grid reference
- TL 835 446
- Coordinates
- 52.06956, 0.67666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Almond Tree Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It has a timber frame and is plastered, topped with a thatched roof that features two gabled dormers. There is a crosswing on the left side of the building. The front has a 1:2 arrangement of small paned casements. A 20th-century enclosed gabled porch has been added, which includes a "Tudor" door and a sidelight. The cottage is also adorned with two red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Almond Tree Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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