The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-pediment-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Wethersfield Road, Sible Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 770 340
- Coordinates
- 51.97682, 0.57567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a small cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century. It has a timber frame and is plastered, with a red tiled roof that has two levels. A central red brick chimney stack is present. The building is one storey and has an attic on the left side, featuring one flat-headed dormer, while the right side is single storey. There are two small paned casements and a centrally located vertically boarded door.
Local climate
The 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 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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