Reaper's Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Reaper's Croft

WRENN ID
deep-column-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brentwood
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1976
Type
Cottage
Address
Reaper's Croft, Old Church Lane, Mountnessing, CM13 1UR
OS grid reference
TQ 639 965
Coordinates
51.64396, 0.3682
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Reaper's Croft is a cottage that dates from the 18th century or early 19th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a thatched roof. The building has a rectangular plan facing south, with an external stack at the right end. To the left, there is a 19th-century extension that also has an external stack, and a 20th-century lean-to extension at the rear of this extension, which is roofed with felt. On the right side, there is a 20th-century extension that encloses the original stack and has a hipped roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage is one storey high.

All windows are 20th-century casements with diamond leading, and all except the right window have plain external shutters. The entrance door is recessed in the right extension. Inside, the structure features unjowled posts, and the rear wallplate has a simple splayed scarf near the left end, which is bolted. The primary bracing is straight, and the main posts are tenoned and pegged to the wallplates, with the studs nailed and spaced about 0.45 meters apart. There is a 20th-century grate on the right, and a 20th-century ceiling has been installed below the original plastered ceiling. The roof has side purlins.

Local climate

Reaper's Croft sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
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