Deans Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Deans Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-stronghold-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Deans Cottage, Oak Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 822 328
- Coordinates
- 51.96464, 0.65083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Deans Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, and has a red tile roof. A central chimney stack is built of red brick. The cottage is two storeys high, with a two-window front featuring casement windows with three lights. There is a boarded door to the left, and a 20th-century porch extension with a boarded door to the right. The timber frame includes jowled storey posts and stop-chamfered bridging joists.
Local climate
Deans 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- 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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