Stables Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Cottage.

Stables Cottage

WRENN ID
ancient-chamber-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Stables Cottage, Braintree Road, Wethersfield
OS grid reference
TL 713 308
Coordinates
51.94988, 0.49158
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stables Cottage is a cottage built in the 17th century, with an extension added in the 18th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has two bays facing northeast and includes an external stack at the left end. There is a single-storey crosswing at the right end, which dates from the 18th century. The building is two storeys high with attics.

On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century casement windows. The first floor has two original windows, one three-light and one two-light, each fitted with a wrought iron casement and diamond leading. The entrance is marked by a plain boarded door. There is an incomplete bread oven located at the front of the stack. The structure features jowled posts and primary straight bracing. Inside, there is a chamfered transverse beam with plain stops, and all other chamfers in the frame also end in plain stops. The original floorboards are still present, and the roof has clasped purlins with arched collars.

Local climate

Stables 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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