The Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
The Croft
- WRENN ID
- scarred-rampart-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Croft, 12, Church Street, Sible Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 776 340
- Coordinates
- 51.97682, 0.58567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Croft is a cottage that dates from the 16th or 17th century or possibly earlier. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a corrugated iron roof. The cottage features red brick external chimney stacks on both the right and left sides, with the right stack being particularly large and having tabled offsets. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range consisting of 19th-century casements and horizontal sliding sashes. There are pentice boards on the ground floor, and the central entrance is a recessed door that is vertically boarded and also has a pentice board above it.
Local climate
The Croft 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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