Old Home Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Old Home Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-slate-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Home Cottage, Parkhall Road, Gosfield, CO9 1SQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 753 293
- Coordinates
- 51.93515, 0.54907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Home Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof that includes a gabled dormer. The cottage has an off-centre red brick chimney stack and is one storey with attics. There is a four-window range of small paned horizontal sliding sashes. Additionally, there is a thatched porch on the left return.
Local climate
Old Home 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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