The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. Cottage.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-paling-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The White Cottage, 120, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 758 249
- Coordinates
- 51.89544, 0.5537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered cottage located on Church Lane in Bocking. It is believed to have originally served as a cowman's cottage and has undergone alterations and renovations in the 20th century. A gabled wing extends from the north side, featuring jet tying on the first storey and a 20th-century carved bressumer designed in a 17th-century style. The south front showcases 20th-century casement windows with leaded lights and a projecting porch with a swept roof. There is a 17th-century battened door with a four-centered head, likely sourced from another building. The roof is tiled and includes three gabled dormers on the south side. Inside, the cottage retains exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
The White Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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