Oak Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Oak Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-beam-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Tree Cottage, Claypits Lane, Foxearth, CO10 7JD
- OS grid reference
- TL 831 437
- Coordinates
- 52.06224, 0.67043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Tree Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed and has pargetted plaster walls, sitting on a brick and flint plinth. The roof is tiled in red. The cottage is two storeys high and has a five-window front on the first floor, with small paned casement windows. The ground floor has four casement windows. Two vertically boarded doors are present, each with a flat canopy above. At the rear is a range with five gabled dormers. A single-storey extension, built of red brick with a red tiled roof, adjoins the right side. There are two red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Oak Tree Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 transactions since 2003
- 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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