Audley Cottage and Baytree House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. House.
Audley Cottage and Baytree House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-lintel-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Audley Cottage and Baytree House, Audley End, Gestingthorpe
- OS grid reference
- TL 812 377
- Coordinates
- 52.00828, 0.63945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Audley Cottage and Baytree House are two cottages dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. They feature a timber frame with plastered exteriors. Audley Cottage has a red plain tile roof, while the adjoining range has a red pantiled roof. There are three red brick chimney stacks. The buildings are two storeys high and have a window arrangement of two sets of two casements with glazing bars. Audley Cottage has a central boarded door with a pediment above it, and the adjoining range has two vertically boarded doors.
Local climate
Audley Cottage and Baytree House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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