Number 1 Sim's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Number 1 Sim's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-wattle-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 1 Sim's Cottage, Braintree Road, Wethersfield, CM7 4BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 712 309
- Coordinates
- 51.9511, 0.49002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It’s timber-framed and has plaster walls, covered by a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays facing northeast, with a chimney stack located one bay from the left end. A single-storey lean-to extension is present at the left side. At the right end, the house connects directly with Simm’s Farmhouse, forming a pair of buildings constructed using a ‘Unit System’. The house is single-storey in height, with attics above. The windows are 20th-century casements, along with one 20th-century round fixed light. There are also two 20th-century casements in gabled dormers. A 20th-century door is found in the left return. The diagonal shafts are rebuilt using modern materials.
Local climate
Number 1 Sim'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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- 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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