The Village Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1975. House, village store. 1 related planning application.
The Village Stores
- WRENN ID
- stranded-groin-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- Basildon and Billericay MP: Mr Richard Holden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1975
- Type
- House, village store
- Address
- The Village Stores, 125, Church Street, Great Burstead and South Green, CM11 2TR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 680 922
- Coordinates
- 51.6039, 0.42506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Stores, located at No. 125 on Church Street in Great Burstead, is a 17th-century house that has undergone significant alterations. It is timber-framed and plastered, now faced in roughcast and weatherboarded on the west gable. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range with double-hung sashes that have vertical glazing bars. The ground floor includes two small shop fronts. The roof is tiled and has three chimney stacks, one of which has been rebuilt in a 17th-century style with diagonal shafts. The Village Stores, along with No. 125 and Nos. 120, 124, and 126, form a group with the Church of St Margaret.
Local climate
The Village Stores sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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