The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-balcony-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Bulmer Street, CO10 7EW
- OS grid reference
- TL 841 402
- Coordinates
- 52.0302, 0.68349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an 18th-century timber-framed cottage with plaster rendering and a thatched roof, the lower half of which is covered in peg tiles. It is a single-story building with attics, featuring two small gabled dormers with cross-pattern glazing bars. A small ridge stack is centrally located, and there’s a central door with a flat hood supported by brackets. Later 20th-century small-pane casement windows with shutters are present, along with a lean-to addition on the west end.
Local climate
The 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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