White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1997. House.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-lantern-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1997
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cottage, 104, Mill Road, Stock
- OS grid reference
- TQ 693 987
- Coordinates
- 51.66186, 0.44758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a house that likely dates from the mid-16th century, with an early 17th-century chimneystack and ceiling. It was enlarged and reroofed in the late 17th century and altered in the 20th century. The building is timber framed, primarily rendered with 20th-century pargetting, but has weatherboarding on the west side. It features a hipped tiled roof with a brick chimneystack on the east and a large external brick stack on the south. There is a 20th-century weatherboarded addition to the west and rendered and tile-hung additions to the south, which are not of special interest.
The exterior is two storeys high with two windows, featuring 20th-century casements with leaded lights. A central late 20th-century hipped rendered porch has sidelights and a glazed door. Inside, the ground floor west room appears to date from the mid-16th century and includes an early 17th-century brick open fireplace with a wooden bressumer, an opening for a bread oven, and a chamfered spine beam with lamb's tongue stop. There is an early 19th-century china cupboard with serpentine shelves. The eastern part of the house was likely added in the late 17th century and has an open fireplace and a chamfered spine beam with lamb's tongue stops. The interior features a series of plank doors and a winder staircase. The wall frame is visible on the ground floor, with corner posts and the top of the wall frame visible at first floor level. The roof has staggered butt purlins with carpenters' marks and mainly original rafters.
Local climate
White 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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