Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old House
- WRENN ID
- strange-outpost-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old House, 25, Potter Street, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3RG
- OS grid reference
- TL 784 333
- Coordinates
- 51.96971, 0.59683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old House is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. The left range has a timber frame with a painted brick facade, one storey and attics, while the right range is two storeys with a plaster finish. There are three red brick chimney stacks located externally on the left, central, and right sides. The right range features a coved eaves cornice. The left range includes three gabled dormers with 19th-century casements, two three-light small paned casements on the left, and a bay with small paned vertically sliding sashes on the right. The central entrance has a four-panelled door and a gabled open porch with timber supports, covered with red tiles. The right range has one window on the first floor and two windows on the ground floor, all of which are small paned vertically sliding sashes.
Local climate
Old 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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