Bricks Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. A C17 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Bricks Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-postern-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bricks Farm Cottage, Sudbury Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2RZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 831 337
- Coordinates
- 51.97217, 0.66466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bricks Farm Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red pantile roof and featuring two red brick chimney stacks. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has three gabled dormers that contain small paned casements. The front has a three-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes and a vertically boarded door with a slanting canopy. There is a 19th or 20th-century extension at the rear. Inside, much of the timber framing is exposed, showcasing stopped and chamfered beams, joists, braces, and halved and bridled top plate scarfs. Restoration work was ongoing at the time of the last survey.
Local climate
Bricks Farm 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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- 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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