River Hill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. A Post-Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
River Hill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- blind-quoin-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- River Hill Cottages, 1, Owls Hill, Terling, CM3 2PW
- OS grid reference
- TL 768 151
- Coordinates
- 51.80691, 0.56403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
River Hill Cottages is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has two bays facing northeast and an axial stack located at the right end, with an additional stack at the rear of the left bay. There is a single-storey lean-to extension at the rear. The house is two storeys high and has one 19th-century and one 20th-century casement window on each floor. A 20th-century door is situated at the side of the lean-to porch. Shaped sprockets are visible below the eaves. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
River Hill Cottages 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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