Heron Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. A C16 Cottage.
Heron Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-plinth-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Heron Cottage, 2, Falcon Square, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 356
- Coordinates
- 51.99023, 0.59854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heron Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and features two gabled dormers. There are red brick chimney stacks located at the rear left and front right of the building. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a four-window range of square leaded casements that have two and three lights. A 20th-century vertically boarded door is situated to the left, while to the right, there is a single-storey lean-to extension with a red tiled roof, which is incorporated into a garden wall made of red brick and dressed flint. At one point in its history, the building was used as an almshouse.
Local climate
Heron Cottage 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 — 3 transactions since 2001
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