40, Queen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
40, Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- other-copper-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 40, Queen Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 353
- Coordinates
- 51.98785, 0.59649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 Queen Street is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations that include a small barn from the 17th century. The building is timber framed and has panel pargetting. It features red plain tiled roofs, with a gable crosswing facing the road and incorporating the barn to the west. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has a flat head dormer on the left return. A central red brick chimney stack is present, and there are two windows on the left return, which are 20th-century casements. A small paned door leads to the rear wing. The cottage is visually important to the street scene.
Local climate
40, Queen Street 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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