Mudpluggers Motorcycles and Adjoining House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Shop, house.
Mudpluggers Motorcycles and Adjoining House
- WRENN ID
- fading-passage-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Shop, house
- OS grid reference
- TL 782 337
- Coordinates
- 51.97392, 0.59442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mudpluggers Motorcycles and the adjoining house is a shop and house that likely dates back to the 17th century or earlier, with an 18th-century facade and 20th-century alterations. The building is timber framed and has parget plastered walls. It features a red plain tiled roof that is hipped to the left, with a lower range roof for the house on the right. There is a large 20th-century attached shaft red brick chimney located at the rear left. The structure is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of three windows to one on the first floor, with small paned vertically sliding sashes, and two windows to two on the ground floor. The left side has bay shop windows with a central recessed glazed shop door that is accessed by three steps. The house has a central four-panelled door with a plain surround, scroll brackets, and a flat canopy.
Local climate
Mudpluggers Motorcycles and Adjoining House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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