Pedder's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage.
Pedder's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fading-screen-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pedder's Cottage, Howe Street, Finchingfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 698 346
- Coordinates
- 51.98395, 0.47204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pedder's Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that features a timber frame with plastering and a thatched roof. It has three bays facing southeast, with an axial stack located one bay from the right end and an external stack at the left end, both dating from the 17th century. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes two 20th-century casement windows, two fixed lights from the 19th or 20th century, and two 20th-century casements in swept dormers. There are also two plain boarded doors, and the roof is hipped only at the left end.
Inside, the cottage has chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops and exposed joists arranged in a vertical section on pegged clamps. It features two large wood-burning hearths, one of which has an inglenook seat and an opening for a former bread oven. There is a fully framed and pegged doorway on the first floor, and the roof is constructed with clasped purlins. This cottage is noted for being an unusually unaltered example of its period.
Local climate
Pedder's 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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