Mansard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Mansard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-bailey-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mansard Cottage, Braintree Road, Wethersfield, CM7 4AQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 721 297
- Coordinates
- 51.94002, 0.50247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage, altered in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has three bays facing southeast with a central chimney stack. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension to the rear with a catslide roof, and further 20th-century single-storey extensions including a lean-to and conservatory at the left end. The cottage has one storey with attics. Windows are 20th-century casements, with two more set in swept dormers. A plain boarded door provides access. The roof is a gambrel shape, half-hipped at both ends. In the left bay, a chamfered axial beam with lamb’s tongue stops is present, although this feature may have been introduced later. The roof structure is supported by a hardwood frame and clasped purlins.
Local climate
Mansard 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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