Cold Hall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Cold Hall Cottages
- WRENN ID
- eastward-tallow-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cold Hall Cottages, Shalford, CM7 5AS
- OS grid reference
- TL 723 261
- Coordinates
- 51.90702, 0.5037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cold Hall Cottages is a house from the 17th century that has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of machine-made red clay tiles. The building has four bays facing southeast and features a 20th-century axial stack located one bay from the right end. There is a single-storey extension at the rear, which includes a lean-to porch with a slate roof in the right rear angle. The house is one storey high with attics and has three 20th-century casement windows, along with one additional casement in a gabled dormer. There are also two plain boarded doors from the 20th century. Architectural details include jowled posts, chamfered axial beams (one with lamb's tongue stops), and plain joists of horizontal section, most of which are plastered on the soffits. The original rebated floorboards and a clasped purlin roof are also notable features. At the time of the survey in September 1984, the house was functioning as two cottages but was in the process of being converted back into a single dwelling.
Local climate
Cold Hall Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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