Hen and Chickens Public House House, Formerly Hen and Chickens Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House, former public house.
Hen and Chickens Public House House, Formerly Hen and Chickens Public House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-terrace-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House, former public house
- Address
- Hen and Chickens Public House House, Formerly Hen and Chickens Public House, Sible Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 764 346
- Coordinates
- 51.98256, 0.56844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house that was formerly known as the Hen and Chickens Public House. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and has undergone later alterations and additions. The structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. There are red brick chimney stacks on the left and external right sides. The house has two storeys, with a single storey extension to the right. It features a three-window range of vertical and horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars. The right extension includes a recessed porch with two 20th-century half-glazed doors. Inside, there are jowled storey posts and stop-chamfered beams on both the ground and first floors.
Local climate
Hen and Chickens Public House House, Formerly Hen and Chickens Public 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
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