Numbers 3 and 4 (Churchyard Cottage), Post Office Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 August 1979. Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
Numbers 3 and 4 (Churchyard Cottage), Post Office Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dark-passage-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 August 1979
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Numbers 3 and 4 (Churchyard Cottage), Post Office Cottages, High Street, Wethersfield, CM7 4BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 712 312
- Coordinates
- 51.95367, 0.49021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of attached cottages dating from the mid-19th century, located on the south side of the High Street in Wethersfield. The cottages are built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. They form a rectangular block facing northwest, featuring a central chimney stack. A single-storey rear extension with a tiled roof is situated behind number 3, while two flat-roofed single-storey extensions are behind number 4 (Churchyard Cottage). The cottages are two storeys high and have a four-window front. The windows are 19th-century horizontally sliding sash windows, each with 24 lights. The ground-floor left window of number 3 has been enlarged and converted into a 20th-century casement window, originally a shop window. There are two 20th-century plain boarded doors.
Local climate
Numbers 3 and 4 (Churchyard Cottage), Post Office Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
- 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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