Rose Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Rose Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-pillar-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Tree Cottage, Borley, CO10 7AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 840 427
- Coordinates
- 52.05285, 0.68263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has one storey and attics, featuring a six-window range with 19th and 20th century casements. There are four gabled dormers, each with red plain tile roofs, and a small gabled porch also covered with a red plain tiled roof. The building has original and 19th century red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Rose Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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