March Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage.
March Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-clay-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
- March Cottage, Long Green Lane, the Salings
- OS grid reference
- TL 684 268
- Coordinates
- 51.91442, 0.44775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
March Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is thatched and half hipped to the left, featuring a central gabled dormer. There is a red brick chimney stack located to the left of the building. The cottage is one storey with attics and has two 19th-century two-light casement windows with pentice boards above them. The central entrance has a vertically boarded door, also with a pentice board above. Inside, there are exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
March 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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