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

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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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