Mulberry Close is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 2 related planning applications.
Mulberry Close
- WRENN ID
- standing-tower-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mulberry Close, 28, Lower Holt Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 288
- Coordinates
- 51.92673, 0.71241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mulberry Close is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, which has been extended and extensively restored in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with some areas of rendered brick, and is topped with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The main part of the house faces northwest and includes an axial stack. The building has two storeys with attics and a single-storey extension to the right, also featuring an axial stack.
On the ground floor, there are two square bays and three casements, all of which are from the 20th century. The porch is gabled and glazed, having been converted into a minor extension. The first floor has four casements and an imitation large hall window, all also from the 20th century. There are two 20th-century casements in gabled dormers, and a recessed porch in the right extension. The roof is hipped, and some of the timber frame is exposed internally. The house has a 17th-century side-purlin roof. It is believed to have been built for Geoffrey Game, a butcher who died in 1572.
Local climate
Mulberry Close 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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