Gable Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Gable Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-belfry-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gable Cottage, the Street, Gosfield, CO9 1TP
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 295
- Coordinates
- 51.93553, 0.59274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gable Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th or 18th century, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame that is plastered, and has red plain tiled roofs. The building consists of a two-storey range on the right side, which is accompanied by a mansard roofed one-storey and attic crosswing. The two-storey range has two catslide dormers on the rear left return, which contain 17th or 18th century square leaded casements. The ground floor has two small paned vertically sliding sash windows. There are red tiled trellised porches, one on the left with a vertically boarded door and another on the right with French windows. The front of the cottage has a window arrangement of one small paned casement and one horizontal sliding sash.
Local climate
Gable 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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