Woodlands Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Cottage.

Woodlands Cottage

WRENN ID
twelfth-merlon-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 May 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Woodlands Cottage, Coupals Road, Sturmer
OS grid reference
TL 692 448
Coordinates
52.07643, 0.46768
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodlands Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th or 19th century, with extensions added in the 20th century. It features a timber frame and clay lump construction, with a plastered exterior and a front elevation made of red brick in Flemish bond. The thatched roof is aligned approximately east-west and includes one axial chimney stack. To the north, there is a lean-to extension with a catslide roof and a flat-roofed extension. The cottage is linked at the northeast corner to a 20th-century house. It is a single-storey building with attics, and the south elevation is faced with mostly 19th-century red brick, which was renewed in the 20th century at the western end. The cottage has four 20th-century casement windows and two flat-roofed dormers that contain late 19th or early 20th-century casement windows. The eastern end of the roof is half-hipped. Inside, there is a large wood-burning hearth facing east and a plain axial beam.

Local climate

Woodlands Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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