Peartree Cottage and Oakleys is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House.
Peartree Cottage and Oakleys
- WRENN ID
- sharp-grate-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Peartree Cottage and Oakleys, the Street, Foxearth
- OS grid reference
- TL 835 446
- Coordinates
- 52.06952, 0.6764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peartree Cottage and Oakleys is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with red tiled roofs. The building features a crosswing on the left and a gabled dormer on the right. It has one storey and attics, with a window range of one small paned casement on the left and three small paned casements to the right. There is a vertically boarded door on the left and a red tiled open porch with another vertically boarded door on the right. A red brick chimney stack with four octagonal shafts, along with a moulded base and capping, is also present.
Local climate
Peartree Cottage and Oakleys sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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