Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-ashlar-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Rosemary Lane, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 788 362
- Coordinates
- 51.99577, 0.60362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame and is faced with 18th-century red brick. The cottage has a thatched roof with two eyebrow dormers and is a single storey building. There is a red plain tiled extension that is hipped to the left and a lean-to red pantile extension to the right. The cottage has central and left red brick chimney stacks. The main range is one storey with attics and has a window arrangement of one central and three side windows, all square leaded casements with segmental arches. Inside, there are 18th-century stairs, stop-chamfered bridging joists, and a fireplace with a stop-chamfered beam above. Some timber framing is exposed, and there is a door detail from the 17th or 18th century.
Local climate
Keepers 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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