Bellevue Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1986. Terrace of cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Bellevue Cottages
- WRENN ID
- distant-courtyard-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1986
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- Bellevue Cottages, 37-55, Foundry Lane, Earls Colne, CO6 2SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 287
- Coordinates
- 51.92616, 0.69757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of ten cottages dating to 1876, built for Robert Hunt and Co., Atlas Ironworks, and located on the east side of Foundry Lane, Earls Colne. The cottages are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with white brick dressings. The roof is covered with 20th-century grey corrugated tiles. The design is presented as a 10-window range, featuring original 16-light sash windows with segmental arches and many retaining original glass. Each cottage has a paired entrance door, also with a segmental arch surround. The quoins and window and door surrounds are highlighted with contrasting white brick. As of April 1986, all windows and doors remained original. A central plaque is inscribed “Bellevue Cottages 1876.” This terrace represents a rare survival in Essex.
Local climate
Bellevue Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1996
- 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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