Cobbins is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House, shop.

Cobbins

WRENN ID
proud-remnant-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House, shop
Address
Cobbins, 11, 13 and 15, High Street, Kelvedon
OS grid reference
TL 859 184
Coordinates
51.83391, 0.69726
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A house, now divided into two houses and a shop, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and mostly plastered, with some exposed framing and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. There are stacks of gault brick. The original form included a 2-bay hall facing southeast, with a stack behind the left bay, and a 2-bay crosswing to the right, with a 19th-century external stack. A 2-bay extension was added to the rear of the crosswing, along with a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension to the left. A 3-bay crosswing from the 17th century stands to the left of the hall, with an axial stack. A 19th-century single-storey extension is at the rear, topped with red clay corrugated tiles, and a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension is on the right.

Numbers 11, 13, and 15 (Cobbins) are three separate sections. Number 11 has a 19th-century bay window, a recessed sash window on the first floor, a 6-panel glazed door. Number 13 has a similar bay window, two mid-19th-century sashes on the first floor, and a 6-panel door. Number 15 (Cobbins) has an early 19th-century shopfront with 24 lights, a half-glazed door, fluted pilasters, a moulded fascia, and four lights in the return side. The right crosswing features curved braces trenched outside the studs, a chamfered binding beam with step stops, plain horizontal joists, a cambered tiebeam with a remaining chamfered brace, and a crownpost roof with axial bracing. The rear wall has diamond mortices for former unglazed windows.

The right crosswing has an underbuilt jetty. The hall range has a mid-16th-century inserted floor with a chamfered axial beam and joists, with step stops. The roof was raised and rebuilt in the 17th century, retaining smoke-blackened medieval rafters with unsooted pegs. The interior of number 13 is heavily plastered; number 11 has plain vertical section joists.

Local climate

Cobbins 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 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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