Wayside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House.
Wayside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- open-transept-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wayside Cottage, 34, Colneford Hill, White Colne
- OS grid reference
- TL 867 290
- Coordinates
- 51.92856, 0.71496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wayside Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It has a timber frame, which is plastered and features imitation framing on the outside. The roof is covered with handmade red plain tiles and has a gambrel shape. There is an axial stack located at the left end of the building. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has two 20th-century leaded casement windows on the ground floor, along with two additional leaded casements in gabled dormers. A small gabled porch, which is roofed with red pantiles, is also present.
Local climate
Wayside Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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