River House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
River House
- WRENN ID
- empty-cellar-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- River House, Lower Holt Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 289
- Coordinates
- 51.92781, 0.71184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
River House is an 18th-century house, altered in the early 19th century. It is constructed of gault and red brick with some plastered timber framing, and has a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The house has a square plan facing southeast, with a rear extension. It is two storeys high, with a 3-window range of 19th-century sash windows. The ground floor has two full-height double doors with rectangular overlights. A central entrance door features a fanlight and a flat, canopied porch supported by tapering square piers with moulded plinth blocks and capitals. A string course and parapet run along the top of the building. The roof is hipped.
Local climate
River House 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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