Nightingale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. A Late C16 House. 4 related planning applications.
Nightingale Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-ember-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nightingale Cottage, Newhouse Road, Earls Colne, CO6 2NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 837 280
- Coordinates
- 51.92109, 0.67061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nightingale Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with the front pitch of the roof covered in handmade red plain tiles and the rear pitch in slate. The cottage consists of three bays and has a central chimney, facing northeast. At the back, there is a full-height extension made of painted brick with a catslide roof. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range of early 19th-century sashes, each with 16 lights. There is a plain door located in a small pedimented doorcase at the right end of the front elevation. The cottage was formerly known as Warren Farm Cottage.
Local climate
Nightingale Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- 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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