Brae Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1980. A C17/18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Brae Cottage

WRENN ID
distant-chimney-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Brae Cottage, 7, Colchester Road, Coggeshall, CO6 1RP
OS grid reference
TL 858 227
Coordinates
51.87207, 0.69808
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brae Cottage is a 17th and 18th century cottage located on the north side of Colchester Road in Coggeshall. The building is timber-framed and has been plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. It originally had four bays facing south, with an axial chimney stack to the left of the centre and a 19th century external chimney stack at the right end. There are two catslide extensions to the rear, one roofed with plain tiles and the other with red clay pantiles. A weatherboarded lean-to is located at the rear left, roofed with corrugated iron. The cottage is one storey high with attics. It has three 20th century casement windows, and three more in slated dormers. A 20th century door is fitted, with a gabled canopy supported by brackets. The roof is half-hipped at both ends.

Local climate

Brae Cottage 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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