Shepherds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1981. House. 3 related planning applications.
Shepherds Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-turret-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shepherds Cottage, Church Road, Hatfield Peverel, CM3 2LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 792 112
- Coordinates
- 51.77097, 0.5967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherd's Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The main part of the house is two stories tall and aligned northeast to southwest, featuring a 20th-century external chimney on the southeast side. There is a shorter one-story range with an attic on the northwest end, which has an internal stack at the junction of the tiles and a lean-to extension in the corner. The northeast elevation facing Church Road has a two-window range of 20th-century casements. The southeast elevation includes two 20th-century casements on the ground floor, one on the first floor, and a 20th-century half-glazed door. The structure has a hardwood frame with jowled posts.
Local climate
Shepherds 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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