Fir Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1999. House.
Fir Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-floor-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1999
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fir Cottage, Gore Lane, Rayne, CM77 6TU
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 225
- Coordinates
- 51.87429, 0.5125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fur Cottage is a house dating from around 1740, with an extension added to the rear in the early 19th century. The structure features a plastered and whitewashed timber frame outshut made of brick, topped with a thatched roof.
The cottage is one storey high with a dormer attic. The east front has a central early 20th-century half-glazed door beneath a gabled porch hood. To the left of the door, there is one 6/6 horizontally sliding sash window and one 2-light casement window with glazing bars at the extreme south. To the right of the door, there is another 2-light casement window with glazing bars immediately adjacent to a 6/6 horizontally sliding sash window. The elevation includes two painted plaster devices that likely conceal tension plates.
There are two gabled dormers, each fitted with 2-light casements with glazing bars. A double-flued ridge stack is located to the left of the centre, along with a gable-end stack on the north side. The rear of the cottage features a full-length outshut, partly covered with pantiles. There is a late 20th-century 2-light casement window to the left beneath a gabled thatched roof, along with four additional 20th-century windows across the rest of the elevation. A low external stack is positioned to the left. A single gabled dormer is fitted with a 2-light casement. The north gable has a late 20th-century half-glazed door, while the south gable features two late 20th-century 2-light casements on the ground floor and one in the attic.
Local climate
Fir 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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