September Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Cottage.
September Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-jamb-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- September Cottage, Mill Road, Ridgewell
- OS grid reference
- TL 735 406
- Coordinates
- 52.03749, 0.52936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
September Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame with a plastered exterior and a thatched roof. The building consists of two bays aligned northeast to southwest, featuring 19th-century external chimney stacks at each end, facing southeast. There is a single-storey extension to the northeast from the 19th century and a 20th-century extension to the southeast of the southwest end, creating an L-shaped plan. The southeast elevation includes a 20th-century door set in a recessed porch, three 20th-century casement windows, and an additional window in a gabled dormer. Inside, the cottage has jowled posts, primary straight bracing, and plain-chamfered axial beams. The joists in the northeast bay are of horizontal section, while the southwest bay has been altered with later, thinner joists. The wallplates feature face-halved and bladed scarfs.
Local climate
September Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
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