Wisemans Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1981. Cottage.
Wisemans Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dark-spindle-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wisemans Cottages, 1 and 2, Barrack Lane, Great Waltham
- OS grid reference
- TL 694 135
- Coordinates
- 51.79463, 0.45539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wisemans Cottages are an early 19th-century pair of estate cottages located in Great Waltham. They are two stories high, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. The cottages feature a gable-ended roof covered with plain tiles and have a diagonal four-shafted chimney stack positioned centrally on the roof slope. Each cottage has two windows with exposed box sashes on the wall face and a central door that is vertically boarded, topped with a hood supported by fretted brackets.
Local climate
Wisemans Cottages 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 86% 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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