Cottage 20 Metres Northwest of Sparrows Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage.
Cottage 20 Metres Northwest of Sparrows Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- riven-solder-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 367
- Coordinates
- 51.99804, 0.7259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This cottage, located 20 meters northwest of Sparrows Farmhouse, is possibly a former service wing. It dates from the 17th century and features a timber frame with plaster, a gabled roof covered in peg tiles, and black weatherboarding on the south gable end. The weatherboarding is painted. On the southwest elevation, there are lean-tos with pantiled roofs. The northeast elevation has a projecting gabled oven chamber. Inside, the cottage contains old coppers, a large oven, and substantial timber-framed walls. The lean-to has old outside walls that display pargetting with various 'D' indentation patterns.
Local climate
Cottage 20 Metres Northwest of Sparrows Farmhouse 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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