1, Woolpack Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. Cottage.
1, Woolpack Lane
- WRENN ID
- ruined-balcony-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TL 760 240
- Coordinates
- 51.88687, 0.55604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 Woolpack Lane is a 17th century cottage that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, now faced with pebbledash. The building has two storeys, with two windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor, all fitted with horizontal sliding sashes that include glazing bars. At the west end, there is an extension that has a shuttered window on the ground floor and a gabled dormer above, which contains old casements with leaded lights. The roofs are tiled.
Local climate
1, Woolpack Lane sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2007
- No related consent applications matched
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