Amos's Cottage to Left and North of the Half Moon is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Amos's Cottage to Left and North of the Half Moon
- WRENN ID
- pale-chamber-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Amos's Cottage to Left and North of the Half Moon, Gages Road, Belchamp St. Paul, CO10 7DP
- OS grid reference
- TL 792 423
- Coordinates
- 52.05028, 0.6121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage and store, likely dating from the 17th century, with an 19th-century store extension to the right. The cottage is timber-framed and panelled with pargetted plaster. It has a thatched roof with two gabled dormers. The front has a three-window arrangement, featuring various casement windows. A vertically boarded door is on the left side, and a four-panelled door is on the right. Off-centre chimney stacks are built of red brick. The store extension is partially plastered and partially of red brick, with a grey slate roof. The cottage is two stories high. A 19th-century half-paned two-light casement window is on the first floor. On the ground floor to the right is a 19th-century bay shop window, and to the left is a three-board door. A small, grey slate-roofed lean-to is attached to the right.
Local climate
Amos's Cottage to Left and North of the Half Moon sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 10 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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