The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-zinc-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 26, Colchester Road, Bures Hamlet
- OS grid reference
- TL 904 337
- Coordinates
- 51.97001, 0.77173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from around 1600. It is timber framed and plastered, with the framing exposed, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has four bays facing east and features an internal chimney stack located in the second bay from the left. It is two storeys high and has a flat-roofed extension that runs the full length of the rear. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century casement windows, and there is one on the first floor, along with two more in gabled dormers. The entrance is through a boarded door that has two small diamond-leaded lights.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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