Gosfield Cars Garage and House Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Garage, house.
Gosfield Cars Garage and House Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- north-pinnacle-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Garage, house
- OS grid reference
- TL 782 296
- Coordinates
- 51.93666, 0.59158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gosfield Cars Garage and House adjoining is a house and garage dating from the 16th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, featuring a weatherboarded return. The building has red plain tiled roofs with two gabled dormers. The house includes gabled crosswings and has three red brick chimney stacks. The central range is one storey with attics, while the crosswings are two storeys high. The facade displays a 1:2:1 window arrangement of small paned vertically sliding sashes, with a three-light shop window to the left. There is a central panelled door and a vertically boarded door to the right, both sheltered by gabled porches on brackets.
Local climate
Gosfield Cars Garage and House Adjoining sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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