Little Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Cottage.
Little Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-mortar-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Cottage, the Green, Ridgewell
- OS grid reference
- TL 738 409
- Coordinates
- 52.03941, 0.53272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Cottage is an extension from the 18th century of an early 16th-century long-jetty house, now functioning as a separate cottage. The building is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. An additional bay was added at the southeast end, which now includes The Nook and Oak Cottage, with connecting doorways on both floors that are now blocked, and an internal chimney stack at the southeast end. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear. The southwest elevation features a 20th-century glazed door, one 20th-century casement window on each floor, and a conservatory or porch that encloses the door and a lower window. Inside, the cottage has exposed framing and a ridged roof. It is included for group value with The Nook and Oak Cottage.
Local climate
Little 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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