Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Cottage.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-chalk-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, the Street, Pebmarsh
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 335
- Coordinates
- 51.9695, 0.70026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a pair of cottages built in the Gothick style in the early 19th century. The walls are plastered, likely made of clay lump up to the eaves, with timber-framed gables and a thatched roof. The building faces south and features a central chimney stack. At the rear, there is a weatherboarded single-storey lean-to extension.
The front of the cottage has two Gothick sash windows, each consisting of 12 rectangular lights and triangular lights in a segmental head. There are also two plain boarded doors. On the first floor, there are two casement windows, each with 12 lights. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Each return wall has one Gothick window with two lights and a two-centred head, along with a first-floor casement window containing six lights.
Local climate
Rectory 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 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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