Grubb's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage.
Grubb's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-zinc-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grubb's Cottage, Church End, Shalford
- OS grid reference
- TL 723 280
- Coordinates
- 51.92443, 0.50457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grubb's Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the east side of Church End in Shalford. It features a timber frame with a plastered exterior and a thatched roof. The cottage has three bays facing northwest and includes an axial stack. There is a 19th-century single-storey extension on the right side, which has an end stack, and a 20th-century single-storey extension at the rear with a flat roof. The building is one storey high with attics, and it has three 19th-century casement windows, along with two additional casements in swept dormers. A 20th-century door is set in a gabled porch, and the roof is half-hipped at both ends. A London Assurance firemark is attached to the front wall.
Local climate
Grubb's 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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