Skippers is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage.
Skippers
- WRENN ID
- first-screen-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Skippers, Great Maplestead
- OS grid reference
- TL 811 343
- Coordinates
- 51.97834, 0.63616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Skippers is a cottage that dates back to the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame and panel pargetting, topped with a thatched roof that has two eyebrow dormers. A central red brick chimney stack is present, with two attached diagonal shafts. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has a three-window range on the ground floor, consisting of three-light casements. The dormers have two-light casements. There is a gabled porch supported by timber, and the entrance has a 20th-century plank and muntin door.
Local climate
Skippers 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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