Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-tower-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Primrose Cottage, Parkhall Road, Gosfield, CO9 1SQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 752 293
- Coordinates
- 51.93504, 0.54841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed with an exposed timber frame and plaster infill. The roof is covered in red plain tiles, and features two gabled dormers. A central chimney stack is built of red brick. The front of the cottage has two small casement windows with small panes of glass. A central, gabled porch with enclosed returns provides access to a 20th-century plank and muntin door, which has sidelights.
Local climate
Primrose Cottage 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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