Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-spindle-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage, Shalford Road, Rayne
OS grid reference
TL 723 231
Coordinates
51.88006, 0.50213
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame with plaster and a weatherboarded plinth. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and has two gabled dormers. There is a gault brick chimney stack on the left and an external red brick chimney stack on the right. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a 20th-century single storey extension to the right. The front has a 2:1 window arrangement of three-light small paned casements, each with pentice boards above. An enclosed gabled porch made of red tiles has a vertically boarded door. Inside, the bridging and ceiling joists are exposed and chamfered.

Local climate

Walnut Tree 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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