Little Common Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Little Common Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-baluster-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Common Cottage, Long Lane, Rayne, CM77 6SU
- OS grid reference
- TL 727 216
- Coordinates
- 51.86685, 0.50733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Common Cottage is a 17th and 18th century cottage located on Long Lane in Rayne. It is timber-framed and has been plastered, with a thatched roof featuring two gabled dormers. A forward wing extends to the right, and a lean-to extension is attached to the left. The property has a red brick chimney stack and an external stack on the right. The front has a two-window range of 20th-century small-paned casement windows, and a vertically boarded 20th-century door. Some of the original timber frame is visible inside.
Local climate
Little Common 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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