Numbers 1 and 2 (Sparrows), Post Office Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 August 1979. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Numbers 1 and 2 (Sparrows), Post Office Cottages
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-keep-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 August 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Numbers 1 and 2 (Sparrows), Post Office Cottages, High Street, Wethersfield, CM7 4BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 712 312
- Coordinates
- 51.95372, 0.49045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1 and 2, known as Sparrows, are a block of cottages located on the south side of High Street in Wethersfield. They were built in the early 19th century and feature red brick in Flemish bond with plaster dressings, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottages have a rectangular plan facing northwest and include four internal rear stacks. Behind number 2, there is a single-storey lean-to extension with a slate roof. The structure stands three storeys high and has a four-window range of early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights, each adorned with plastered flat arches above the ground-floor and first-floor windows. There are two slightly recessed four-panel flush doors with plastered jambs and semicircular arches, along with one blocked doorway that has a segmental brick arch. The roof is hipped.
Local climate
Numbers 1 and 2 (Sparrows), Post Office Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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