Seven Sisters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Seven Sisters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-cinder-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Seven Sisters Cottage, Moat Street, Gestingthorpe, CO9 3AT
- OS grid reference
- TL 816 368
- Coordinates
- 52.00042, 0.64485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seven Sisters Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber framed and plastered, with decorative ashlar lines. The roof is red plain tiles and features three gabled dormers. The cottage is one storey high, with attics, and has a three-window front with small-paned vertically sliding sash windows. A gabled porch with a grey slate roof encloses the entrance, which features a four-panelled door. A red brick chimney stack is positioned off-centre. A single-storey extension to the right, with red plain tiles and a small-paned casement window, has been added. The interior features chamfered beams and contains both 17th and 18th century doors.
Local climate
Seven Sisters 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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