Claypits Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Claypits Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-merlon-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Claypits Cottage, High Street, Great Bardfield, CM7 4SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 674 304
- Coordinates
- 51.94718, 0.43496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Claypits Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the north-west side of High Street, Great Bardfield. It was incorrectly shown on Ordnance Survey maps as number 1, Hope Cottages. The cottage is timber-framed with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It has two bays facing southeast, with internal end stacks. A rear extension provides a single storey with attics. The front features a two-window range of 20th-century casement windows with imitation diamond leading; the upper windows are set in swept dormers. A 20th-century gabled porch covers the front door.
Local climate
Claypits Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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