The Sparrows is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Sparrows
- WRENN ID
- lone-lintel-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Sparrows, Church Hill, Helions Bumpstead, CB9 7AJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 651 416
- Coordinates
- 52.04826, 0.40697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sparrows is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays aligned east-west, with a northern aspect and an axial chimney stack located in the middle bay. In the 19th century, the house was extended at both ends to create a range of cottages, which were later combined into one. The house has two storeys and includes a 20th-century door, a splayed bay of casement windows, and two additional casement windows on the ground floor, along with four more on the first floor, all of which are from the 20th century. The original structure features jowled posts, heavy studding, and plain-chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops.
Local climate
The Sparrows sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- 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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