Lapwing Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottages. 4 related planning applications.
Lapwing Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ruined-bastion-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Lapwing Cottages, 1 and 2 Lapwing Cottages, Liston, CO10 7HX
- OS grid reference
- TL 847 455
- Coordinates
- 52.07745, 0.6941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lapwing Cottages is a pair of cottages that were formerly a medieval hall house, dating from around 1550 or earlier, with 17th century and later additions and alterations. The cottages are timber framed and rough rendered, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof that extends to a lower level on the left side. They are single-storey with a rear wing and feature a two-window range of small paned sliding sashes. The central entrance has a four-panelled door with a light above it and is sheltered by a flat canopy. There is an off-centre red brick chimney stack. Notably, heavily sooted medieval roof timbers remain in place beneath the later roof.
Local climate
Lapwing Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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 — 2 transactions since 2020
- 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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