Willow Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage.
Willow Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-bonework-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Tree Cottage, the Green, Wickham St. Paul
- OS grid reference
- TL 831 364
- Coordinates
- 51.99643, 0.66635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century, with later alterations. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a red pantile roof. The cottage features off-centre and right external red brick chimney stacks. It has two storeys and a three-window range, which includes small-paned casements or vertically sliding sashes. There is an off-centre gabled enclosed porch with sidelights, and the entrance is through a vertically boarded door.
Local climate
Willow Tree 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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