Beslyns Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1985. Cottage.

Beslyns Cottage

WRENN ID
ghost-barrel-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Beslyns Cottage, Cooks Lane, Great Bardfield
OS grid reference
TL 669 318
Coordinates
51.96002, 0.42805
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beslyns Cottage is a 17th-century granary that has been converted into a cottage. It features a timber frame, plastered walls, and a weatherboarded dado, with a thatched roof. The building is arranged in two bays aligned northeast-southwest and includes a 19th-century internal chimney stack at the southwest end. There is also a 19th-century single-storey extension with a red tiled roof to the northwest, which has a chimney stack at the junction. The cottage is one storey high with attics.

On the southwest elevation, there is one 18th-century wrought iron casement window, one 20th-century metal casement window, and a plain boarded door. The right return elevation (southeast) features two 20th-century metal casements and one semi-circular fixed light with Gothick tracery, along with rectangular leaded lights. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, the cottage has chamfered axial beams and exposed joists with a vertical section.

Local climate

Beslyns Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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