Chesnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1983. Cottage.
Chesnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-jamb-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chesnut Cottage, Church Green, Little Yeldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 778 395
- Coordinates
- 52.02565, 0.59063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was extended in the 19th century. It is timber-framed, with a combination of plaster and weatherboarding, and features both thatched and slated roofs. The cottage consists of two bays and is aligned northwest to southeast, with a chimney stack located at the southeast end, dating from the 17th century. There is a lean-to extension on the northeast side, which has a catslide roof and was added in the 19th century. The cottage is one storey with attics and has a thatched roof.
A two-storey range was added at the southeast end in the mid-19th century, creating an L-shaped plan. This section has a hipped roof at the southwest end and a chimney stack at the northeast end, and it features a slate roof. The southeast elevation includes a plain boarded door set in a rustic porch and a two-window range of double-hung sashes with six lights, also from the mid-19th century. The roof is adorned with pierced ornamental ridge tiles. Inside the earlier part of the cottage, there are jowled storey posts.
Local climate
Chesnut 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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