Mary's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1975. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Mary's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-mullion-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mary's Cottage, 13, Shalford Road, Rayne, CM77 6BT
- OS grid reference
- TL 731 228
- Coordinates
- 51.87733, 0.5134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mary's Cottage is a small cottage dating from the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It has a timber frame and is plastered, with a weatherboarded plinth and a red plain tiled roof. A red brick chimney stack is located on the left side. The cottage features one storey and an attic on the right range, while the left range is a single storey. The gable end has leaded two-light Gothic windows, and the main range has two small paned horizontal sliding sashes along with a central vertically boarded door. There is also a small 20th-century small paned casement and door on the left range.
Local climate
Mary's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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