Owls Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Cottage.

Owls Hill Cottage

WRENN ID
dreaming-pilaster-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Owls Hill Cottage, Terling
OS grid reference
TL 769 151
Coordinates
51.80657, 0.56545
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Owl's Hill Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was altered in the 19th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has three bays facing southeast, with a central stack that creates a lobby entrance and an internal stack at the right end. There is a 19th-century extension at the rear right. The building is one storey with attics and features two 19th-century casement windows, along with two additional casements in swept dormers. The entrance has a central 20th-century door and the cottage has a gambrel roof. Two tusk-tenoned beams extend through the front wall, with one also visible externally at the rear. Internally, these beams are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and the plain joists have a vertical section.

Local climate

Owls Hill 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 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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