Boat House Cottage the Boat House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1982. House. 5 related planning applications.
Boat House Cottage the Boat House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-truss-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Boat House Cottage the Boat House, Colchester Road, Bures Hamlet, CO8 5AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 905 338
- Coordinates
- 51.97037, 0.77192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boat House, also known as Boat House Cottage, is a building located in Bures Hamlet, dating from the early 17th century. Originally a single house, it has been divided into two cottages and later combined back into one. The structure is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features three bays facing west and has a central chimney stack. There are two single-storey rear extensions from the 19th century, along with a lean-to on the left, all of which have slate roofs. The building stands at two storeys with attics and has a two-window range of early 19th-century sash windows, each with 16 lights, plus one additional sash window in the left extension. There are two blocked doors, and the entrance is located in the right return wall.
Local climate
Boat House Cottage the Boat House 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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