The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-obsidian-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 31, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 759 244
- Coordinates
- 51.8904, 0.55579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered house designed in an L-shaped plan with wings extending to the north and west. The east front of the north wing features 18th century windows, consisting of a two-window range with double-hung sashes that have glazing bars, all set in flush cased frames. The west wing mainly has 20th century casement windows. At the west end, there is a two-storey bay window beneath a gable, while the east end showcases two Gothic pointed arched French windows. The roof is tiled and includes a coved eaves cornice on the east front.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
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