Elm Cottage and Pottery Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 4 related planning applications.
Elm Cottage and Pottery Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-tin-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Cottage and Pottery Cottage, Shalford Green, CM7 5AZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 713 273
- Coordinates
- 51.91822, 0.48969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage and Pottery Cottage are a house, originally one dwelling, now divided into two, dating back to the early 17th century. The building has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed with plastered walls and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house has five bays facing northwest, with two axial chimney stacks. A rear wing extends to the right of the centre, and a 19th-century lean-to extension with a slate roof sits to the right of this wing. A 20th-century single-storey extension with a slate roof is at the rear of the left chimney stack, and a 20th-century entrance block is situated in front of the same stack. The house is two storeys high, with a four-window front featuring early 19th-century sash windows, each with 16 lights and some crown glass. A glazed door serves as the entrance for Elm Cottage, situated to the left of the front extension, while Pottery Cottage has a six-panel door with glazed upper panels, set within a gabled porch on the right return wall. The left chimney stack has rebuilt diagonal shafts at the top. Interior features include jowled posts, face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates, and one axial beam with lamb’s tongue stops, while the others are boxed in. The left chimney stack contains a large wood-burning hearth with a 20th-century grate facing to the right; the right stack features a 20th-century grate facing to the left.
Local climate
Elm Cottage and Pottery Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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