Tudor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Tudor Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-timber-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Tudor Cottage, Hall Green, Little Yeldham, CO9 4LF
OS grid reference
TL 782 389
Coordinates
52.02029, 0.59697
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tudor Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building consists of three bays aligned northeast to southwest, featuring an axial chimney stack at the northeast end of the middle bay. There is a small lean-to extension at the southwest end. The cottage is a single storey with attics.

On the northwest elevation, there is a 20th-century door and three 20th-century casement windows, along with two additional windows in slated lean-to dormers. Inside, the cottage has jowled posts, heavy studs, and a clasped purlin roof with arched wind braces. All the floors have been inserted. In the northeast and middle bays, there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps, dating around 1600. The floor in the southwest bay is of similar construction but was added later in the 17th century, featuring notched stops and thinner joists. Originally, the southwest end was half-hipped, with mortices for an unglazed window below, but the roof has since been extended continuously over the lean-to.

Local climate

Tudor 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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