St Peter's Cottage and Wing to Rear Associated with No 3 is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.

St Peter's Cottage and Wing to Rear Associated with No 3

WRENN ID
peeling-vault-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
St Peter's Cottage and Wing to Rear Associated with No 3, 5, Grange Hill, Coggeshall, CO6 1RA
OS grid reference
TL 849 223
Coordinates
51.8687, 0.68521
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

St. Peter's Cottage and the wing to the rear associated with No. 3 is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The wing at the rear left is mainly weatherboarded and has a roof covered with red clay pantiles. The main range has three bays and faces east, featuring an external stack to the right that is shared with No. 7. There is an 18th-century one-bay wing at the rear right, along with a lean-to conservatory beyond it. The building is one storey with attics, while the early 19th-century wing at the rear left has a stack at the junction and another axial stack, making it two storeys tall.

The cottage includes two 20th-century casement windows with diamond leading and two additional casements in large gabled dormers from the 20th century. There is an early 20th-century half-glazed door set in a recessed porch, along with a 20th-century gabled canopy supported by brackets. On the right elevation of the left rear wing, the first floor features three 19th-century horizontal sash windows with 12 lights each, as well as two fixed lights with handmade glass.

Inside, over the right ground-floor room, a binding beam is made from re-used timber sourced from a medieval building, dovetailed for a former jetty. The room has chamfered axial bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section. There is a wood-burning hearth on the right, faced with 20th-century brick, and a corner hearth on the left with a 20th-century grate. In the right upper room, exposed studding in the gable is visible, with a window blocked by an external stack. The left rear wing contains many smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval hall, which were re-used with a ridge construction in the early 19th century.

Local climate

St Peter's Cottage and Wing to Rear Associated with No 3 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
  • 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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