Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Cottage.
Oak Cottages
- WRENN ID
- solitary-cornice-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottages, 1 and 2, Faulkbourne
- OS grid reference
- TL 794 173
- Coordinates
- 51.82571, 0.60191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottages is a range of cottages, now consisting of two, that dates back to the 17th century and was altered in the 20th century. The cottages are timber framed, plastered, and weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The structure has a four-bay range facing southeast with a central stack, and a three-bay range facing northeast, featuring an 18th or 19th-century internal stack at the junction, creating an L-shaped plan. The cottages are one storey high with attics.
No. 1, which faces southeast, has four 20th-century casement windows, three additional casement windows in gabled dormers, and a 20th-century door located in a gabled porch. No. 2, facing northeast, features a three-window range of 20th-century casements and a 20th-century door in a trellised porch. Each stack has four octagonal shafts. Inside, there are chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops. At the junction of the two ranges, one beam is supported by an unusual Y-shaped post with an elaborately profiled head, which may have been introduced later. The roofs have clasped purlins.
Local climate
Oak Cottages 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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