Windmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Windmill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-screen-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Windmill Cottage, Braintree Road, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3RL
- OS grid reference
- TL 786 323
- Coordinates
- 51.96111, 0.59857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windmill Cottage is a cottage of probable 17th century or earlier origin, with later alterations and an 18th and 19th century red brick facade. It is timber-framed and has a red plain tiled roof. The roof is punctuated by three gabled dormers containing 19th century casement windows. Two red brick chimney stacks are present, the one on the right featuring two original octagonal shafts. The front has a four-window range of various 19th and 20th century casements and small-paned vertically sliding sash windows, two of which are flat-roofed bays. There are two-part glazed doors, and a small lean-to is attached to the right. The building was formerly known as the Windmill Inn.
Local climate
Windmill 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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