Number 7 Cob Cottage and Number 8 is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Number 7 Cob Cottage and Number 8
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-frieze-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Number 7 Cob Cottage and Number 8, Faggot Yard, Off Church Lane, CM7 5SJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 759 244
- Coordinates
- 51.89083, 0.55502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 7 Cob Cottage and Number 8 are a pair of cottages, originally three, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with extensions from the 18th and 20th centuries. The cottages are timber framed and plastered, with the left-hand bay featuring a fragmentary timber frame that has been clad or replaced in brick, which is now painted. They have a thatched roof and are one storey with attics. A gabled crosswing was added to the right-hand end in the 1920s.
The cottages have a six-to-one window range, primarily consisting of 19th-century timber casements, with the windows in No 7 being 20th-century leaded casements. There is a small gabled two-light casement dormer beneath a tiled roof. The front features two boarded doors that served the former Nos 8 and 9. An axial red brick stack, built in two phases, is located between Nos 7 and 8, while a thin painted stack is situated between No 7 and its crosswing. The remains of a former stack at the left-hand end is now internal. No 7 retains part of its exposed frame, while Nos 8 and 9 (formerly) have exposed frames, with the far left frame likely being of later construction. There is also part of an exposed inglenook fireplace and a clasped purlin roof of various builds where visible. The front wall of the main range is recessed under overhanging eaves that were formerly supported on posts. A lease for the property exists from 1555.
Local climate
Number 7 Cob Cottage and Number 8 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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