Bawn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. Cottage.
Bawn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-moulding-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bawn Cottage, Bradford Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 760 238
- Coordinates
- 51.88555, 0.55614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bawn Cottage is an 18th century timber-framed and weatherboarded cottage, with plastered east and west ends. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-window range with casement windows that include glazing bars. The roof is tiled and has a mansard design, with two dormers that have sloping roofs. Bawn Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 19 to 51 (odd), Nos 37 to 41 (odd), and Nos 4 to 20 (even) on Bradford Street.
Local climate
Bawn 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
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