Blue Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Blue Bridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-panel-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blue Bridge Cottage, Halstead, CO9 2HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 824 301
- Coordinates
- 51.94035, 0.65267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Bridge Cottage is a 18th-century building that has been refaced in grey brick in the early 19th century. It stands two storeys high and features a red plain tile roof. The cottage has a three-window range with vertical sliding sashes. The central door has a semi-circular head. At the east end, there is a timber-framed and plastered range, also with a red plain tile roof. The building is topped with two gable end chimney stacks.
Local climate
Blue Bridge 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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