Highway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Highway Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-grate-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highway Cottage, 118, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 1BA
- OS grid reference
- TL 819 143
- Coordinates
- 51.79783, 0.63731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highway Cottage is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on the north-west side of Newland Street. It is part of a group of properties that includes numbers 117 to 129 (odd) and 124 to 128 (even). The two-storey house has a stepped stone plinth and a three-window front. It features casement windows with leaded lattice lights. The roof is tiled and half-hipped at the north end.
Local climate
Highway 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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