Old Little Smiths is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. A C15/C16 Cottage.
Old Little Smiths
- WRENN ID
- tattered-quoin-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Little Smiths, Bryants Lane, Woodham Mortimer
- OS grid reference
- TL 809 050
- Coordinates
- 51.71517, 0.61856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Little Smiths is a cottage with origins dating from the 15th or 16th century, featuring alterations and additions from the 18th century and later. The building is timber framed and panel plastered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The left side has a gambrel roof with two gabled dormers, while the right side has an attached red brick chimney stack. The left range is one storey with attics, and the right range is two storeys. The windows consist of two sets of two on the first floor and three on the ground floor, all of which are small paned casements from the 20th century. There is also a 20th-century rear extension. Inside the left range, notable features include heavy timber wall studs, a top plate, and a ground cill, along with a heavy stop-chamfered bridging joist. The original chimney stack has been encased with 20th-century brick.
Local climate
Old Little Smiths sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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