Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage.
Bridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-pediment-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bridge Cottage, Gestingthorpe
- OS grid reference
- TL 791 390
- Coordinates
- 52.02068, 0.60924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a red plain tiled roof, which includes two gabled dormers. The building has two red brick chimney stacks and is one storey high with attics. The front has a range of four 20th-century casement windows. To the left, there is a 20th-century lean-to porch with a matching casement window and a half-glazed door. Inside, the cottage has stop-chamfered beams across two bays and a framed side purlin roof, with a halved and bridled scarf joint.
Local climate
Bridge 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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