Orchard Lane Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Lane Cottages
- WRENN ID
- waiting-bracket-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Lane Cottages, the Street, Foxearth, CO10 7JG
- OS grid reference
- TL 834 447
- Coordinates
- 52.07058, 0.67533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Lane Cottages is a row of cottages, likely dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with 19th century and later alterations and additions. The cottages are primarily timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The right side features a crosswing with 19th century two-storey bay windows, and there is a central two-storey bay window as well. Generally, the cottages are one storey with an attic, and there are two 20th century casement windows. The 19th century bays have vertical sliding sashes. The three doors have moulded surrounds, with two of them being four-panelled, and the door on the left has two lights. There are three red brick chimney stacks. Inside, the cottages feature heavy stop-chamfered bridging joists and floor joists.
Local climate
Orchard Lane Cottages 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- 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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