Woolards Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Woolards Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-soffit-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Woolards Cottages, 9-15, Church Green, Broomfield, CM1 7BD
- OS grid reference
- TL 705 104
- Coordinates
- 51.76648, 0.47091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolards Cottages comprise a range of 18th-century timber-framed and plastered cottages, arranged as one storey with attics. The cottages have 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars, and simple hoods over the doorways. The roofs are tiled and feature five gabled dormer windows. A gabled wing extends to the rear. The cottages form a group with the Church of St Mary the Virgin, The Vineries, Broomfields, and the King’s Arms Inn.
Local climate
Woolards 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 86% 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 — 2 transactions since 2011
- 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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