Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Small house. 3 related planning applications.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-bastion-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Small house
- Address
- Holly Cottage, Alphamstone Road, Lamarsh, CO8 5ES
- OS grid reference
- TL 889 356
- Coordinates
- 51.98723, 0.75097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is a small house dating to the late 17th century, with extensions added in the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, now plastered, and has a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house has three bays, arranged around a central chimney stack which forms a lobby-entrance to the south. A rear wing is located at the right end, and a lean-to extension with a slate roof is behind the left end, both additions of the 19th century. The building is one storey high with attics. The central entrance has a simple 6-panel door and architrave, while there are two 20th-century casement windows to the front, and three more set within low-pitched dormers. The roof is gambrel shaped. Inside, some timber framing remains visible, and there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops.
Local climate
Holly Cottage 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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