Meadowsweet Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage.
Meadowsweet Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-parapet-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Meadowsweet Cottage, Great Henny
- OS grid reference
- TL 883 374
- Coordinates
- 52.00355, 0.74264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadowsweet Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has plastered and painted brick. The building is one storey high with attics and features a gabled thatched roof. The front of the cottage includes a 20th-century off-centre enclosed porch that has a gabled pantile roof and imitation framing. The windows are 19th-century casements with small panes, and there is one eyebrow dormer located on the rear slope. At the back, there is a continuous lean-to with a pantile roof, along with one off-centre thin ridgeline stack and a gable stack at the south end. An inserted floor beam, which is tusk tenoned externally, is visible on the front elevation. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace situated beneath the ridgeline stack.
Local climate
Meadowsweet 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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