Angel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1977. House.
Angel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-rampart-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Angel Cottage, Wrightsbridge Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 550 941
- Coordinates
- 51.62489, 0.23859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Angel Cottage, formerly known as the Old Angel, is a house that was originally an inn. It dates back to the early 15th century and features a timber-framed hall house with a crosswing to the north. The building has been altered and has a large extension to the north that was added in the late 20th century. The exterior is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a tiled roof and brick chimneystacks.
The hall is one bay wide and has a 20th-century casement window on the ground floor, with a small gabled dormer above. A large brick stack is located on the south wall, and the hall originally extended further south. The two-storey cross-wing is likely slightly later than the hall but shares similar carpentry features. It has a jettied front supported by wooden brackets, a shallow five-light bay window on the ground floor with a moulded brick base and original moulded window frame, and a 20th-century casement window on the upper floor. The north stack includes two diagonal brick flues, and the north elevation features an old doorway with a four-centred head.
Although the interior has not been inspected, it is reported to have an original crownpost rafter roof with one moulded crownpost. The rear of the property has large 20th-century additions.
Local climate
Angel Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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