The Old Crown is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Former inn. 1 related planning application.
The Old Crown
- WRENN ID
- blind-gravel-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Former inn
- Address
- The Old Crown, 1, Crown Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3DB
- OS grid reference
- TL 784 356
- Coordinates
- 51.99069, 0.59689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Crown is a former inn that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring some painted brick facing, and has red plain tiled roofs. There is a red brick chimney stack located on the left crosswing and at the rear right. The left half of the building has a hipped gabled crosswing that extends out to the ground floor on the right and is two storeys high. The central range is set back and consists of one storey and an attic, which includes a flat-headed dormer. To the right, there is a 20th-century two-storey flat-roofed extension. The façade displays a window arrangement of 1:1:1, featuring various 19th-century casements and vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars. To the right of the central range, there is a six-panelled door with two lights in a moulded surround.
Local climate
The Old Crown 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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