Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-truss-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Holly Cottage, the Street, the Salings, CM7 5DT
- OS grid reference
- TL 701 255
- Coordinates
- 51.90272, 0.47192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with later alterations. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a red plain tiled roof and a red brick chimney stack on the left side. The cottage has two storeys and attics, as well as a cellar. It has two windows, which are diamond-leaded casements. An attic window is located on the right return. The central door is vertically boarded and set in a moulded surround, with a cast iron trellis porch featuring an ornate cornice. A wing extends from the rear.
The cottage has two bays and features jowled storey posts and arched halved bracing to the walls. The roof is a side purlin construction. Original attic floor boards remain. A fireplace with an inglenook is present. There is an 18th or 19th century painted brick cellar. An original 17th-century window, complete with its original ironmongery, is still in place.
Local climate
Holly Cottage 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 — 5 transactions since 2006
- 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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