Motts Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Motts Garden
- WRENN ID
- ragged-dormer-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Motts Garden, School Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2RY
- OS grid reference
- TL 825 339
- Coordinates
- 51.97366, 0.65673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Motts Garden is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It has a timber frame and is covered in parget plaster, topped with a grey slate roof. There is a plastered chimney stack on the left side. The cottage is one storey with an attic and features a two-window range of 19th-century vertically sliding sashes. To the left, there is an enclosed gabled porch with a plank and muntin door. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension on the left, also with a grey slate roof and plastered walls. Inside, the cottage has exposed ceiling beams and a red brick Inglenook fireplace with a mantel beam above.
Local climate
Motts Garden 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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