Quince Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Quince Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-pedestal-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Quince Cottage, Howe Street, Finchingfield, CM7 4JB
- OS grid reference
- TL 693 343
- Coordinates
- 51.98176, 0.46518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quince Cottage is a pair of combined cottages dating from the early 19th century. They are timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building has four bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack and an external stack at the right end. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension at the rear. This pair of cottages has been added to Belbyne on the left, and an extra flue has been inserted into the earlier stack. The structure is one storey with attics, including one 19th-century casement window, two 20th-century casement windows, and two additional casements in eyebrow dormers. The entrance features a plain boarded door, and the roof is half-hipped at the right end. Deeds held by the owners suggest that it was built around 1813. The cottage is listed for its group value with Belbyne Cottage.
Local climate
Quince Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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