Willow Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. A Early C19 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Willow Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-rubble-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Tree Cottage, Braintree Road, Shalford, CM7 4QY
- OS grid reference
- TL 736 268
- Coordinates
- 51.91311, 0.52291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Tree Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and has a roughcast rendered exterior with a thatched roof. The cottage has three bays facing southwest and features a central stack. There is a single-storey extension added to the left end in the 20th century. The building is one storey with attics and includes two 19th-century horizontally sliding sash windows, each with 12 lights. The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed door. The roof is gambrel in style and half-hipped at both ends. The hardwood frame includes Roman numerals on the studs, arranged in true sequence.
Local climate
Willow Tree 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 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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