School Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage.
School Cottages
- WRENN ID
- fossil-lancet-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- School Cottages, 1 and 2, the Green, Wickham St. Paul
- OS grid reference
- TL 830 364
- Coordinates
- 51.99599, 0.66514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School Cottages are a pair of cottages built in the late 18th century. They are constructed of clay brick with lath and plaster facing, and some areas are finished with plaster only. The cottages have thatched roofs and feature one central chimney stack along with one external chimney stack on each side, all made of red brick. The buildings are one storey high with attics and have two grey slate dormers that contain 19th-century casements. The front has a window arrangement of 1:2:1, featuring 19th-century small paned vertically sliding sashes or 19th-century casements with central transoms. Each cottage has a centrally located vertically boarded door; the left cottage has a small slanting canopy with brackets, while the right cottage has a pent ice board above its door. Inside, there are original rear staircases, doors, surrounds, and dados.
Local climate
School Cottages 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 2002
- No related consent applications matched
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