Noah's Ark Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. Cottage.
Noah's Ark Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-mantel-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Noah's Ark Cottage, Highfields Lane, Kelvedon
- OS grid reference
- TL 862 180
- Coordinates
- 51.83022, 0.70118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Noah's Ark Cottage is a pair of attached cottages that have been converted into one house. It dates from the 18th century and has been altered in the 20th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. It has five bays facing southwest, featuring a central stack and an external stack at the left end. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has no extensions.
There are three 20th-century casement windows with diamond leading, along with four additional casement windows in gabled dormers. The entrance is an off-centre 20th-century door located in a trellised and gabled porch. The roof is a half-hipped gambrel style. Inside, there are axial beams and exposed plain joists with a vertical section, along with 20th-century grates. The right end bay was rebuilt after suffering fire damage. The cottage is depicted as an ancillary building of Tan Office on the First Edition 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1875, which was demolished before the Second Edition of 1895.
Local climate
Noah's Ark 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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