Primrose Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.
Primrose Cottages
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-bailey-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Primrose Cottages, 2 and 2a, Arbour Lane, Wickham Bishops, CM8 3NT
- OS grid reference
- TL 845 121
- Coordinates
- 51.77725, 0.67322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottages are a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are timber-framed with a painted brick facade. The roof is red plain tiles in a gambrel style, extending outwards at the rear, and includes two catslide dormers. A central chimney stack is constructed of red brick. The cottages feature two-light casement windows with small panes, each set within a gauged brick arch. There are two vertically boarded doors, also with gauged brick arches. Many original interior features remain, including vertically bead-boarded doors, first-floor floorboards, newel stairs, and corner cupboards in the kitchen, which have panelled doors. Modern bathroom extensions have been added to the rear of the cottages.
Local climate
Primrose 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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