Wrens Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Wrens Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-bailey-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wrens Cottage, Church Road, Bradwell, CM77 8BQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 816 240
- Coordinates
- 51.88499, 0.63784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren's Cottage is an 18th-century house located on Bradwell Church Road in Pattiswick. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The cottage has five bays facing northwest and features a stack in the middle bay against the rear wall. It is one storey high with attics, and includes three 20th-century casement windows along with four additional casements in lean-to dormers. The entrance has a 20th-century halved door topped with a bracketed gabled canopy. The roof is half-hipped at both ends, and there are no rear extensions. The main frame is pegged, and the interior includes chamfered transverse beams with run-out stops. There are two large wood-burning hearths, one of which is blocked while the other has been reduced for a 20th-century grate.
Local climate
Wrens 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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