Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage.
Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-courtyard-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage, Braintree Road, Shalford
- OS grid reference
- TL 721 292
- Coordinates
- 51.93476, 0.50309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 20th century. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and features a thatched roof. The cottage has three bays facing northeast and includes a central stack, creating a lobby entrance. To the left, there is a 19th-century single-storey extension with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. At the rear of the left end, there is a single-storey lean-to extension that has a roof covered with corrugated asbestos. Additionally, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension with a flat roof at the rear of the right end. The building is one storey high with attics and features two 19th-century horizontally sliding sash windows with 12 lights each, along with one 20th-century casement window and a 20th-century door. The wide rafters are visible below the eaves.
Local climate
Keeper's 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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