Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage.
Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-ember-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, High Street, Wethersfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 712 312
- Coordinates
- 51.95381, 0.49085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that was altered in the 19th century. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a rectangular plan facing northwest and features a central stack. It is two storeys high and has a two-window range of late 19th-century sashes with six lights each. The entrance is a central plain boarded door, and the roof is half-hipped at both ends.
Local climate
Smithy 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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