Vine 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.

Vine Cottage

WRENN ID
iron-lantern-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Vine Cottage, 3, the Causeway, Finchingfield, CM7 4JU
OS grid reference
TL 685 328
Coordinates
51.96852, 0.45176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vine Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has three bays facing west and features a stack. To the right, there is a single-storey lean-to extension. The building is one storey high with attics. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows. The first floor includes two additional casement windows in gabled half-dormers, along with one 18th-century two-light window that has diamond leading and early glass. The front door is set within a 20th-century gabled porch. Vine Cottage is listed for its group value.

Local climate

Vine 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
  • 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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