Unnamed Cottage Approximately 40 Metres West North West of Ringers is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage.

Unnamed Cottage Approximately 40 Metres West North West of Ringers

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
TL 709 292
Coordinates
51.93516, 0.4857
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century cottage located approximately 40 metres west-north-west of Ringers in Shalford. The cottage is timber framed, plastered, and features a weatherboarded dado with a thatched roof. It has two bays facing south, with an original stack on the left return wall and a 20th-century external stack on the right return wall. There is a lean-to porch at the rear, which is roofed with corrugated asbestos. The building is one storey with attics and has a two-window range of 20th-century casements, with the upper windows set in swept dormers. The door is a plain boarded design from the 20th century. The roof is gambrel and half-hipped at the right end only. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams, exposed joists, primary straight bracing, and a wood-burning hearth. The cottage is similar in design to Garlands Cottage on Brent Hall Road in Finchingfield, but it does not have any modern extensions.

Local climate

Unnamed Cottage Approximately 40 Metres West North West of Ringers 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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