Dynes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House, forge. 5 related planning applications.
Dynes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-pedestal-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House, forge
- Address
- Dynes Cottage, 2, Lower Holt Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 864 287
- Coordinates
- 51.92576, 0.71023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dynes Cottage is a building that was originally a forge and dates back to the 14th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior, topped with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The structure features a 3-bay crosswing that is gabled towards the street and was once connected to a hall located to the left, which is now known as No. 4 Spoutwell House. The cottage has two storeys and was previously jettied towards the street, although this has been underbuilt.
There is a 16th-century stack at the rear of the building. On the ground floor, there is one 18th-century sash window with glazing bars, while the first floor features a 20th-century leaded casement window. The door is adorned with a moulded architrave and a small pedimented hood. Inside, much of the original frame remains exposed, including one mutilated double-ogee doorhead. Additionally, there are remnants of a 14th-century forge furnace stack located in the center of the building.
Local climate
Dynes 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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