98-104, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House, cottages. 3 related planning applications.
98-104, High Street
- WRENN ID
- winter-doorway-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House, cottages
- Address
- 98-104, High Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2QX
- OS grid reference
- TL 859 288
- Coordinates
- 51.9272, 0.7024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now divided into four cottages, dating back to 1585. Originally a timber-framed structure, it was later plastered and has a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. The building retains a medieval 4-bay plan, with the original floor throughout, jutting out over the street. An original stair tower is located at the rear, and a 17th-century extension was added to the rear of the building. The front has two storeys and a 6-window range of 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars. The cottages at numbers 98 and 104 have 6-panel doors, with the top two panels glazed, while numbers 100 and 102 have 4-panel doors. All entrances are sheltered by flat hoods supported on brackets. The front is distinguished by 18th-century iron railings with returns to each doorway. The roof is hipped at the left-hand end. The building features high-quality timber framing, including stop-chamfered beams and joists, and an arch-braced side-purlin roof.
Local climate
98-104, High Street 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 — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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