Mossings is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. A Georgian Cottage.

Mossings

WRENN ID
outer-belfry-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1962
Type
Cottage
Period
Georgian
Address
Mossings, Great Maplestead
OS grid reference
TL 810 345
Coordinates
51.97954, 0.63491
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mossings is an 18th-century cottage constructed of red brick. It features a half hipped red plain tiled gambrel roof with six gabled dormers. A red brick eaves band runs along the roofline, and there are red brick chimney stacks on both the left and right sides of the building. The cottage is one storey with attics and has a five-window range of 19th-century casements, which have segmental heads and a band above them. The central entrance consists of a two-panel door, flanked by plain pilasters, and is topped with a flat canopy supported by curved brackets.

Local climate

Mossings 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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