Paycocke's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. House. 1 related planning application.

Paycocke's Cottage

WRENN ID
upper-lancet-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1966
Type
House
Address
Paycocke's Cottage, 23, West Street, Coggeshall, CO6 1NS
OS grid reference
TL 848 225
Coordinates
51.87054, 0.68292
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Paycocke's Cottage is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame, covered in plaster and weatherboarding, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles and slate. The cottage has two bays facing north and features a rear stack located near the left end. There is a 19th-century wing at the back with an internal end stack and a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a single-storey lean-to extension added on the left side of the main range, also from the 19th century.

The front has a two-window arrangement of early 19th-century sashes, each with 16 lights made of crown glass. The central entrance features an early 19th-century six-panel door, with the upper panels fielded and the lower panels flush, set within a simple doorcase that has profiled brackets and an altered canopy. The left extension has its own six-panel door, where the upper four panels are moulded and the lower panels are flush, topped with a moulded pediment on profiled brackets. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is included for its group value.

Local climate

Paycocke's 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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