Old Drawwell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Drawwell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-moat-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Drawwell Cottage, Dicketts Hill, Great Yeldham, CO9 4HS
- OS grid reference
- TL 768 363
- Coordinates
- 51.99738, 0.57511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Drawwell Cottage is a 16th-century cottage that was extended in the 19th century. It is timber-framed and has plaster walls and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has four bays aligned north-east to south-west, with a northwest-facing aspect, and one axial chimney stack. A 19th-century extension forms an L-plan to the southeast of the northeast end. The cottage is single-storey with attics.
The windows and doors were removed for renovation during a survey in January 1984, but 19th-century cast iron windows are being repaired for replacement on the northwest side. The interior features jowled posts, heavy studding, and curved bracing trenched inside studs. Inserted floors in the main range are supported on pegged clamps. There are transverse and axial beams, the latter with lamb's tongue stops, alongside plain horizontal joists. The roof was rebuilt using softwood.
Local climate
Old Drawwell 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 — 5 transactions since 1997
- 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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