Gentry's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1977. Cottage.
Gentry's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-pillar-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gentry's Cottage, Bulmer
- OS grid reference
- TL 848 376
- Coordinates
- 52.00624, 0.69156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gentry's Cottage is a 15th-century cottage that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a half hipped thatched roof and two small ridge line stacks. There is a tall stack located against the front wall. The cottage is primarily one storey, but it has a 20th-century rear extension that includes two gabled dormers on the west face. Originally, it was a small open hall house with a sooted roof and a very complete timber frame. Notably, the west bay has an interrupted tie beam end framing, which is separately framed from the rest of the building.
Local climate
Gentry's 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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