20, Witham Road is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage.
20, Witham Road
- WRENN ID
- vacant-frieze-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 20, Witham Road, Black Notley
- OS grid reference
- TL 759 211
- Coordinates
- 51.86161, 0.55415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Witham Road is a cottage that dates from the 17th or 18th century, or possibly earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a pebble dash plaster finish. The roof is hipped and thatched. There are red brick chimney stacks located at the rear left and on the external right side. The cottage has two storeys and features a three-window range of small-paned casements, with the ground floor windows having pentice boards above them. The central entrance consists of a boarded door with a top light and a pentice board over it.
Local climate
20, Witham Road 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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