Gore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage.
Gore Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-jamb-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gore Cottage, 4, Gore Lane, Rayne, CM77 6TU
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 226
- Coordinates
- 51.87524, 0.51233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gore Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is covered with red plain tiles, and there are red brick chimney stacks on both the right and left sides of the building. The cottage has two storeys and features a lean-to addition on the right side. The front has a two-window range consisting of vertically sliding sashes with glazed margins or casements with glazing bars. The central entrance is a boarded door with two lights, topped by a small canopy supported by brackets.
Local climate
Gore 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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