Holly Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1973. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Holly Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
crooked-wattle-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochford
Constituency
Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1973
Type
Cottage
Address
Holly Tree Cottage, 125, Main Road, Hawkwell, SS5 4ET
OS grid reference
TQ 846 916
Coordinates
51.59351, 0.66417
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holly Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid-17th century, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped by a red plain tiled roof that has an outshot at the rear. The cottage features external red brick chimney stacks on both the left and right sides. It has one storey and attics, with two catslide dormers and two small paned, two-light casement windows on the ground floor. There is a 20th-century glazed central gabled porch with a red tiled roof and a 20th-century door with a plain surround.

Local climate

Holly Tree Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
  • 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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