Bowyers , Lime Cottage and Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House.
Bowyers , Lime Cottage and Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-arch-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bowyers , Lime Cottage and Primrose Cottage, North Road, Great Yeldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 760 384
- Coordinates
- 52.01661, 0.56443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowyers, Lime Cottage, and Primrose Cottage is a house from the 18th century that was converted into three cottages in the 19th century. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of two parallel ranges aligned northwest to southeast, with a southwest aspect and two chimney stacks in each range. It is two storeys high.
Bowyers features a six-panel door, with the top two panels being glazed, set in a rustic porch that has a tiled gabled roof. It also has a two-window range of 18th-century three-light casements with rectangular leaded panes. Lime Cottage has a four-panel door and a one-window range of 18th-century casements with small rectangular panes. Primrose Cottage is similar, with a plain rectangular light above the door.
Local climate
Bowyers , Lime Cottage and Primrose 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
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