Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House.

Vine Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-outpost-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House
Address
Vine Cottage, 1, Vine Street, Great Bardfield
OS grid reference
TL 676 306
Coordinates
51.94887, 0.43728
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vine Cottage is a house that has been converted into two cottages and a shop, dating from the 18th to early 19th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has five bays, featuring one axial stack and a 19th-century external stack at the right end. There is a two-storey extension at the rear and a single-storey extension on the right side.

The structure stands two storeys high. At the left end, there is a disused 19th-century shopfront that projects from the main elevation, complete with three barred external shutters, a halved door, and a shallow slated hood supported by scrolled brackets. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century tripartite sash windows with 4-8-4 lights and two early 19th-century sashes with 12 lights. The first floor features three early 19th-century sashes with 12 lights and one mid-19th-century sash with 4 lights. Additionally, there is a six-panel door in a moulded doorcase, also with a shallow hood on scrolled brackets, dating from the early 19th century, alongside a 20th-century door. The building is listed for its group value.

Local climate

Vine 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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