Wren Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1972. Cottage.
Wren Cottages
- WRENN ID
- idle-panel-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wren Cottages, 1, 3 and 5, Church Street, Rayleigh
- OS grid reference
- TQ 807 908
- Coordinates
- 51.58791, 0.6078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren Cottages is a row of three cottages that date from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. The cottages are timber framed, featuring a weatherboarded rear and a 19th-century red brick facing, along with plastered and weatherboarded returns. They have red plain tiled roofs and three rear gables. The buildings are two storeys high and have a four-window range, mostly consisting of small paned vertically sliding sash windows. There is a 19th-century shop bay on the ground floor to the right, and the cottages have three panelled doors, with the doors on the right and left having top lights.
Local climate
Wren Cottages receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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