1 and 2, Bell Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1979. Cottage.
1 and 2, Bell Lane
- WRENN ID
- winding-basalt-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1 and 2, Bell Lane, Great Bardfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 674 305
- Coordinates
- 51.94823, 0.43447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1 and 2 on Bell Lane in Great Bardfield are a block of cottages dating from the late 18th century. The cottages are timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. They have a rectangular plan facing southwest, with a rear extension. The building is one storey high with attics, featuring one axial stack and one internal stack at the left end.
On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casements and one 19th-century horizontally sliding sash window with 18 lights. The first floor has five 19th-century horizontally sliding sash windows with 8 lights, set in shallow slated dormers. There is also one 19th-century half-glazed door and one blocked doorway. The roof is gambrel in style.
Local climate
1 and 2, Bell Lane sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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