William and Mary Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1980. Cottage.
William and Mary Cottages
- WRENN ID
- crooked-jamb-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- William and Mary Cottages, Witham Road, Cressing
- OS grid reference
- TL 798 189
- Coordinates
- 51.83977, 0.6085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
William and Mary Cottages are a pair of attached cottages that have been converted into one house. They date from the late 18th century and feature a timber frame with red brick in Flemish bond, topped with handmade red plain tiles. The building faces northwest and includes an external stack and a gabled bread oven at each end. It is one storey high with attics, featuring four 20th-century casement windows and four additional casement windows in gabled dormers. There are four plain doors. The front has a gambrel roof, while the rear has a full-length catslide roof with four gabled dormers.
Local climate
William and Mary Cottages 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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