Pond Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Pond Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-crypt-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pond Cottage, Fairstead Road, CM3 2BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 768 170
- Coordinates
- 51.82448, 0.56529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pond Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and plastered, with a thatched roof. The cottage has two bays facing south, featuring a stack in each gable end. There is a single-storey extension to the northwest, which is roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. The building is one storey with attics and has five 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century glazed door. Inside, there are exposed axial beams that are chamfered, along with plain joists that show good craftsmanship. The left hearth has been repaired above the mantel beam, while the right hearth has been blocked.
Local climate
Pond 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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