Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-window-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage, 31, High Street, Stock, CM4 9BD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 691 989
- Coordinates
- 51.66405, 0.44469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is an 18th-century brick house that was altered in the 19th century. It is painted and has a rear wing. The house is two storeys high with a three-window front, featuring double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor includes an original splayed bay at the west end and a 19th-century two-storey gabled bay that projects at the east end. A 20th-century doorway is present. The roof is tiled. The property forms a group with Nos. 17 to 25 (odd), Nos. 27, 29, and 31 on High Street.
Local climate
Oak 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 5 transactions since 2006
- 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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