Grove Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Grove Cottages
- WRENN ID
- long-pedestal-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grove Cottages, 1-5, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 2BQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 824 149
- Coordinates
- 51.80331, 0.64514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottages is a range of 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottages with red brick fronts, located on Newland Street. The building has a single storey and attics, with a seven-window front. Windows are 3-light casements with leaded lights, set in plain reveals and topped with segmental brick arched heads. The roofs are tiled and have a mansard design, with seven gabled dormers.
Local climate
Grove Cottages 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 2000
- 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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