Brickkiln Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage.
Brickkiln Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-brass-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brickkiln Cottage, Brick Kiln Green, Wethersfield, CM7 4DT
- OS grid reference
- TL 735 316
- Coordinates
- 51.95596, 0.5239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brickkiln Cottage is a pair of attached cottages that have been converted into one house, dating from the late 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with the frame exposed at the front and a thatched roof. It has four bays facing east, featuring a central stack. There is a single-storey extension from the 19th or 20th century at the rear of the right end, which includes an end stack, as well as a 20th-century lean-to extension on the right, roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. The cottage is one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century casement windows and one 20th-century diamond-shaped fixed light. The first floor has two 20th-century casements in swept dormers. A plain boarded door is set in a 20th-century recessed porch. Inside, there are two wood-burning hearths, with the right hearth featuring an introduced rounded back. The structure includes primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs, and chamfered axial beams with run-out stops. There is one original internal door, although it is not in its original position.
Local climate
Brickkiln 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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