Providence Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Providence Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-jade-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Providence Cottage, Gainsford End, Toppesfield, CO9 4EG
- OS grid reference
- TL 726 356
- Coordinates
- 51.99285, 0.51294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Providence Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered, and the roof is thatched. The original structure consists of two bays aligned east-west, with a 19th-century external chimney stack at each end. To the north, there is an 18th or 19th-century extension that includes an axial chimney stack, as well as a single-storey lean-to extension to the west, which is roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. The building has a plain boarded door and two 20th-century metal casement windows on the ground floor, along with two additional windows on the first floor, one of which is located in a slated swept dormer. Part of the eastern elevation is clad with painted brickwork.
Local climate
Providence Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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