Park Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Park Cottages
- WRENN ID
- quiet-pillar-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Park Cottages, 1 and 2, the Street, Gosfield, CO9 1ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 782 299
- Coordinates
- 51.93905, 0.59198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Cottages are a pair of cottages dating to around 1850-1860, built for Samuel Courtauld of Gosfield Hall, who owned the Halstead and Bocking weaving mills. The cottages are constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings around the windows, doors, and chimney stacks. They have plaster and batten decoration above a central band and a red plain tiled roof. There are three symmetrically placed chimney stacks along the ridge, and further chimney stacks project forward to the left and right of the feature gables. Three feature gables are present, each with bargeboards, finials, and timber corbels. The cottages are two storeys high with attics, featuring a three-window range of three-light iron casement windows with ornate glazing bars. Gauged brick arches feature above the ground floor windows, and two central plank and muntin doors provide access.
Local climate
Park 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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