Blacksmiths Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Cottage.
Blacksmiths Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-clay-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blacksmiths Cottage, 3 and 5, Colchester Road, Bures Hamlet
- OS grid reference
- TL 905 339
- Coordinates
- 51.97153, 0.77218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blacksmiths Cottage is a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are timber framed, plastered, and have a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottages have four bays facing west, with a central chimney stack, and feature two single-storey rear extensions from the 19th century. There is a 20th-century porch located in the right rear angle. The cottages are one storey high with attics and have a four-window range of late 19th-century sashes, each with four lights, with the upper windows set in gabled dormers. The left cottage has a four-panel door, while the other cottage is accessed from the right rear. The roof is gambrel in style.
Local climate
Blacksmiths Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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