Rosemary Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Rosemary Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-alcove-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rosemary Cottage, 34 and 35, the Street, Stisted, CM77 8AW
- OS grid reference
- TL 799 247
- Coordinates
- 51.89181, 0.61432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rosemary Cottage is a pair of attached houses built in the mid-19th century in the Tudor Revival style. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish and English bond, with some areas featuring plastered timber framing that mimics traditional framing. The roofs are covered with handmade red plain tiles.
No. 34 has a main range that is one storey high with attics, facing northwest. No. 35 includes a two-storey crosswing on the right that projects to the front. There is an axial stack at the junction of the two houses and a joint service wing at the rear.
The ground floor of No. 34 features one casement window with 8 lights and another with 12 lights, both set in chamfered plaster surrounds. On the first floor, there are two casement windows with 6 lights, each topped with two 2-centred heads in a gabled dormer. The door has a 4-centred head and a chamfered plaster surround.
No. 35 has a ground floor splayed bay window with casements arranged in a 4-12-4 light pattern, and on the first floor, there is an oriel window with 3-3-3-3 lights, featuring four 2-centred heads and a hipped roof. The door is located on the right return and is similar to that of No. 34. All windows and doors in both houses are original.
Each house has a jetty with exposed joists and a plain bressumer. Above the jetty, there is imitation framing with ogee and radial bracing in the style of the West Midlands. The dormers and gable feature fretted bargeboards designed with a fleur-de-lis pattern, along with carved finials and pendants; the finial on the main gable is smaller in size. The left return of the building is plastered.
There are six elaborately moulded shafts, both octagonal and round, and two 19th-century casement windows in gabled dormers at the rear, which have plain bargeboards. This pair of houses has remained unaltered and retains its original design.
Local climate
Rosemary Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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