Quy's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House.

Quy's Cottage

WRENN ID
proud-vault-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Quy's Cottage, Gainesford End, Toppesfield
OS grid reference
TL 726 356
Coordinates
51.99209, 0.51267
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quy's Cottage is a small house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed with a timber frame, weatherboarded and plastered, and features a thatched roof. The building has four bays aligned north-south, with an axial chimney stack located one bay from the south end and an external chimney stack at the north end, facing east.

There is a 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed extension to the southwest, which connects the cottage to a small ancillary building. The cottage is single-storey with attics and includes a plain boarded door, two late 18th-century double-hung sash windows, and two 20th-century casement windows. It also features one eyebrow dormer and one gabled dormer, each containing an 18th-century window with one fixed light and one wrought iron casement.

Inside, the cottage has heavy studding, arched braces from the original corner posts, axial beams, and exposed plain joists with a horizontal section. The central ground-floor partition has been stripped back to the studding.

Local climate

Quy's 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 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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