Ranelagh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House. 5 related planning applications.
Ranelagh Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-step-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ranelagh Cottage, 41, Tey Road, Earls Colne, CO6 2LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 866 285
- Coordinates
- 51.92416, 0.71326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ranelagh Cottage, originally one house and now divided into two, dates from the late 15th or early 16th century, with alterations and extensions in the 17th century. The building is timber-framed and clad with weatherboards, with a red plain tile roof. It began as a small hall house facing southwest, featuring one 16th-century chimney stack rebuilt at the top, and another dating from the 18th century. The main part of the building is one storey high with attics. The ground floor has two 20th-century casement windows. Four gabled dormers project from the roof; the second from the left has a 19th-century sash window, while the others have 20th-century casements. Two small 20th-century porches with lean-to red plain tile roofs are attached to the front. The date 1640 is inscribed in the plaster of the right gable and in modern lettering in one of the dormers.
Local climate
Ranelagh Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 4 transactions since 2007
- 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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