Shenfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1975. House.

Shenfield Cottage

WRENN ID
over-turret-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brentwood
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
House
Address
Shenfield Cottage, 49, Shenfield Road
OS grid reference
TQ 602 943
Coordinates
51.62526, 0.31358
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shenfield Cottage is a house built in the early 19th century, with extensions added in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior features ashlar plaster on brick and a slate roof. The building has a rectangular shape facing southeast, with two stacks on each side wall, and an extension on the right that encloses the stacks. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing that connects the main house to a previously separate single-storey cottage on the right, which has one internal stack. There is also a small two-storey extension in the left rear corner with a flat roof. The house is two storeys high, and the front elevation includes one splayed bay with sash windows. Most windows are sashes with 1+1 lights, except for one mid-19th century sash window with 6+6 lights and handmade glass located on the ground floor of the right elevation, above which is a blocked original aperture. The front door is a 20th-century half-glazed design with a plain overlight and a flat canopy on brackets, originally positioned centrally to the left of the bay. A plaster band runs at first-floor level and continues along the right elevation. The roof is hipped with a low pitch and features long overhanging eaves, along with two skylights in the rear pitch. The house abuts No. 47, which is not listed.

Local climate

Shenfield 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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