Wash Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Cottage.
Wash Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- guardian-vault-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wash Farm Cottages, Birdbrook
- OS grid reference
- TL 704 403
- Coordinates
- 52.03571, 0.48308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wash Farm Cottages is a house from the 16th century that has been divided into two cottages. It features a timber frame that is plastered and a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building is aligned northeast to southwest and has a northwest aspect, with two axial chimney stacks. It stands two storeys high and has two six-panel doors along with four 20th-century casement windows on each storey, which are arranged asymmetrically. The roof is hipped, and the northeast chimney stack has four grouped octagonal shafts, while the other chimney stack is plain.
Local climate
Wash Farm Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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