Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-bronze-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bridge House, the Street, Gosfield, CO9 1TU
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 290
- Coordinates
- 51.93171, 0.59518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge House is a cottage that dates from the 17th or 18th century, with some later alterations. It is constructed from timber framing and has a plastered exterior. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and features an off-centre gabled dormer and an outshot at the rear. A central red brick chimney stack has square attached shafts. The building is two storeys high, with one window on the first floor and three small paned casements on the ground floor. There is an off-centre slanting red tiled porch supported by timber posts, leading to a vertically boarded door. There has been some confusion in the past regarding the original name and listing of this house and the nearby property known as "Sparrows."
Local climate
Bridge House 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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