Morlands is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Morlands
- WRENN ID
- salt-flue-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Morlands, Burnt House Road, Earls Colne, CO6 1AS
- OS grid reference
- TL 873 265
- Coordinates
- 51.90598, 0.7214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Morlands is a house that dates from the late 16th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior, topped with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The building has a rectangular plan and faces west, featuring an external stack at the right end. It is one storey high with attics. There is a small 19th-century extension at the east end, which has an end wall jetty. The house includes two 20th-century casement windows and an additional casement window in a large gabled dormer. A 20th-century glazed porch with a plain tiled roof is also present.
Local climate
Morlands 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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