Park Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Pair of cottages. 11 related planning applications.
Park Cottages
- WRENN ID
- bitter-bastion-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Pair of cottages
- Address
- Park Cottages, 7 and 8, the Street, Gosfield, CO9 1ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 782 298
- Coordinates
- 51.9383, 0.59191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages dating from the 18th century, similar in style to numbers 1 and 2 Park Cottages. They have an attic window in the central gable, which distinguishes them from the adjacent properties.
Local climate
Park Cottages 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 — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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