Rose Cottage and Little Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage and Little Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-wall-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage and Little Orchard Cottage, Hall Road, Panfield, CM7 5AN
- OS grid reference
- TL 737 251
- Coordinates
- 51.89788, 0.52389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage and Little Orchard Cottage form a pair of early 19th-century cottages located on the north side of Panfield Ball Road. They are timber-framed buildings, with plaster infill and thatched roofs. The cottages are four bays wide, with a central chimney stack. A 20th-century single-storey extension with a tiled, hipped roof is on the left end, and a 19th-century extension with a shingled roof and a chimney stack is on the right end. The cottages are one storey high, with attics.
Rose Cottage, on the left, has two 20th-century casement windows, and a further window in a swept dormer. It features a plain boarded door within a tiled, lean-to porch. Little Orchard Cottage has one early 19th-century horizontally sliding sash window with 30 panes, two 20th-century casement windows, and another in a swept dormer. It has a plain boarded door set within a thatched, gabled porch. A roundel with the painted inscription "I.N. 1826" is visible in the plasterwork between the cottages. The roof is gambrel-shaped, half-hipped at both ends.
Inside Rose Cottage, the timber frame is largely plastered. In Little Orchard Cottage, sections of the timber frame remain exposed, showing straight bracing. Other features include plain, vertically sectioned joists, a coal-burning hearth with an iron strap supporting a brick arch, and an early staircase with a quarter-turn at the bottom, which is probably original to the building.
Local climate
Rose Cottage and Little Orchard 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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