September Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
September Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-balcony-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- September Cottage, Church Street, Great Maplestead, CO9 2RH
- OS grid reference
- TL 807 342
- Coordinates
- 51.97741, 0.62973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
September Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with later alterations, located on the west side of Church Street in Great Maplestead. The cottage is timber-framed and has panel pargetted walls. It features a red plain tiled roof with two gabled dormers, and central and right-hand red brick chimney stacks. The building is one storey high with an attic. There are four small casement windows with small panes of glass. The front has two vertically boarded doors secured with nails. A 20th-century lean-to garage extension has been added to the right side.
Local climate
September 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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