Pentlow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Pentlow Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-outpost-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Pentlow Cottage, CO10 7JS
OS grid reference
TL 810 446
Coordinates
52.07107, 0.6397
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Pentlow Cottage is a small cottage dating from the 17th century, with some alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and has plastered thick walls, featuring traces of early pargetting. The cottage has a thatched roof with a lean-to on the right side and is one storey high with an attic. There are two casement windows with shutters, and a boarded door is located to the right. At the rear, there is a red brick chimney stack.

Local climate

Pentlow 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2000
  • 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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