By Road Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

By Road Cottage

WRENN ID
night-oriel-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
By Road Cottage, Pot Kiln Chase, Gestingthorpe, CO9 3BH
OS grid reference
TL 817 388
Coordinates
52.01875, 0.64667
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

By Road Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has parget plastered walls. The roof is thatched and the building has one storey with attics. There is a 20th-century single storey flat roof lean-to on the right side. A central red brick chimney stack is present, and there are two windows featuring small paned casements. The entrance door is located at the rear of the cottage.

Local climate

By Road 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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