Prospect Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Prospect Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-alcove-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Prospect Cottage, the Green, Finchingfield, CM7 4JX
- OS grid reference
- TL 683 328
- Coordinates
- 51.96841, 0.44912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined, dating from the early 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. It features four bays facing south, a central stack, and an external stack at the left end. There are single-storey lean-to extensions at the rear and beyond. The cottage is one storey high with attics, and it has four 20th-century casement windows, along with three additional windows in slated swept dormers. The entrance includes two 19th-century half-glazed doors with shallow hoods. Inside, the cottage has chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops.
Local climate
Prospect 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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