Priory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.

Priory Cottage

WRENN ID
keen-gallery-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1962
Type
House
Address
Priory Cottage, 35, Upper Holt Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2PG
OS grid reference
TL 864 287
Coordinates
51.92614, 0.70992
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priory Cottage is a house dating from around 1670, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from flint and red brick rubble, featuring red brick dressings, and is topped with handmade red plain tiles. The building has a three-bay and chimney-bay layout facing northeast towards the entrance of Colne Priory. An early 19th-century L-shaped extension to the southwest projects forward towards Upper Holt Street.

The cottage is two storeys high, with a northeast front that includes a four-window range of 18th-century sashes with glazing bars and segmental heads; three of these windows are now blocked and painted to resemble sashes, while there are two 20th-century casements. The original entrance features 18th-century double doors, and the roof is hipped. The early 19th-century extension, which has a gabled front facing the street, contains one original sash window with thin glazing bars and a gauged brick arch on the right side.

A linking range features a colonnade of four timber posts with central glazed double doors and a blocked window opening above. Inside, there are 17th-century stop-chamfered beams and joists, as well as a 17th-century side-purlin roof. The property also contains internal doors from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Local climate

Priory Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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