Captain's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. Cottage.

Captain's Cottage

WRENN ID
upper-spindle-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1966
Type
Cottage
Address
Captain's Cottage, 3, East Street, Coggeshall
OS grid reference
TL 850 225
Coordinates
51.87109, 0.68668
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Captain's Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on the north side of East Street in Coggeshall. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The cottage has a single range that faces south, featuring a stack at the rear right corner. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension with a flat roof at the rear right. The building stands two storeys high. On the ground floor, there is one sash window with 16 lights, while the first floor has two 20th-century casement windows. A 20th-century half-glazed door and 19th-century double vehicle doors provide access to a passage. The left side of the cottage is plastered, and the rear elevation is weatherboarded, showcasing two early 19th-century casement windows with six lights and much crown glass on the first floor.

Local climate

Captain's Cottage 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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