The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-oriel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Waterside Road, Bradwell-On-Sea
- OS grid reference
- TL 996 076
- Coordinates
- 51.73214, 0.88993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a painted brick facade. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and is hipped towards the road. There is a plastered chimney stack on the right side. To the left, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension featuring a curved parapet. The cottage also has a 20th-century enclosed gabled porch with a red tiled roof and a glazed door. On the first floor, there is a single small-paned casement window. Inside, there are heavy bridging joists and flat ceiling beams on the ground floor, along with a two-armed crown post roof structure.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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