Gatehouse Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. A C18 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Gatehouse Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-bailey-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gatehouse Cottages, 221-225, Oak Road, Rivenhall, CM8 3HG
- OS grid reference
- TL 831 170
- Coordinates
- 51.82176, 0.65653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A range of 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottages, located at Oak Road, Rivenhall, were built in 1841 and are arranged on a T-shaped plan. The cottages are one storey in height with attics. The windows are mainly 20th century casements with glazing bars. The roofs are tiled, incorporating mansard sections, half-hipped form, and three gabled dormers facing the south-east and two dormers facing the north-east.
Local climate
Gatehouse 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 9 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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