Cottage 5 Metres North West of Leapingwell's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. Cottage.

Cottage 5 Metres North West of Leapingwell's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
little-threshold-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1988
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
TL 842 190
Coordinates
51.83971, 0.6728
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a cottage located 5 metres northwest of Leapingwell's Farmhouse, dating from around 1600 and altered in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The cottage has four bays facing northwest, featuring a 18th-century external stack on the left end, which has a small lean-to extension at the rear, and a 19th-century external stack on the right end.

On the ground floor, there is one 20th-century casement window and two 19th-century casement windows. The first floor has one 19th-century casement window and another in a lean-to dormer. A 20th-century door leads to the front of a gabled porch with a slate roof. The cottage is one storey with attics.

In the two left bays, there are chamfered axial and transverse beams with lambda tongue stops, while the right bay has similar beams that are unstopped. All joists are plain and of horizontal section, arranged longitudinally in the second bay from the right end and laterally in the other bays. There is an inserted stair trap in the left front corner that is blocked, and inverted knees are present over the binding beams. The left first-floor window is at floor level, and the frame is mainly covered by plaster and wallpaper, with the roof ceiled. This cottage was built as part of a 'Unit System' pair with the main house.

Local climate

Cottage 5 Metres North West of Leapingwell's Farmhouse 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 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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