Turners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. A C17 Residential. 1 related planning application.

Turners Cottage

WRENN ID
shifting-soffit-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 November 1973
Type
Residential
Address
Turners Cottage, 1-4, Braintree Green, CM77 6TB
OS grid reference
TL 733 223
Coordinates
51.87305, 0.51611
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Turners Cottage is a range of 17th century timber-framed and plastered cottages located on Queenborough Lane in Braintree. The building is one storey high with attics and features a five-window range with horizontal sliding sashes that include glazing bars. The roofs of cottages 1 and 4 are thatched, while cottages 2 and 3 have tiled roofs. There are four sloping-roofed dormers and an original T-shaped chimney stack.

Local climate

Turners 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 — 10 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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