Chapel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Chapel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-balcony-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chapel Cottage, Henny Road, Lamarsh, CO8 5ET
- OS grid reference
- TL 891 356
- Coordinates
- 51.98744, 0.75299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century that has been modernised and extended around 1978. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has three bays facing west and includes a central chimney stack from the 18th century. There is a one-bay extension to the south, added around 1978. The building is one storey high with attics and has three 20th-century casement windows, along with four additional windows in swept dormers. A 20th-century lean-to porch with a side door is also present. Inside, the cottage has jowled posts, heavy studding (some of which has been replaced), and an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the rear wallplate, with the front wallplate splinted over a similar scarf. There are two transverse beams, one of which is ledged and tenoned to the posts, while the other has been reset. An aperture for a bread oven is located in the side of the hearth but has been removed. Most of the original rafters remain, with a modern roof constructed above.
Local climate
Chapel Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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