The Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. Cottage. 10 related planning applications.
The Bakery
- WRENN ID
- proud-bronze-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Bakery, Cressing
- OS grid reference
- TL 787 203
- Coordinates
- 51.85333, 0.59434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bakery is an 18th century cottage, or possibly earlier. It is timber-framed and has been plastered, with a thatched roof. The building has three bays facing southwest, featuring an external stack at the left end and an internal stack at the right end. It is a single storey with attics. A lean-to extension with a slate roof runs along the full length of the rear and rounds the left end, extending to the front and forming an L-plan. The front of the building has two 20th-century casement windows, along with two more set in gabled dormers. A half-glazed, four-panel door is situated within a lean-to porch roofed with handmade red plain tiles. The stack on the right also has similar tiles. The front of the left extension, which was formerly a bakery, has one 20th-century casement window and a plain boarded door. The interior has not been inspected. The listing recognizes the building's group value.
Local climate
The Bakery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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