66 and 67, Ridgewell Road is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 6 related planning applications.
66 and 67, Ridgewell Road
- WRENN ID
- little-cloister-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 66 and 67, Ridgewell Road, Ashen, CO10 8JL
- OS grid reference
- TL 744 423
- Coordinates
- 52.05244, 0.543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 66 and 67 on Ridgewell Road are 17th-century houses that have been divided into two cottages and altered in the 20th century. They are timber framed, with roughcast rendering and a roof made of machine-made clay tiles. The building consists of three bays aligned northeast-southwest, featuring a central chimney stack. There is a two-storey flat-roofed extension to the northwest and a single-storey lean-to extension to the southwest, both added in the 20th century. The southeast elevation has four 20th-century casement windows and two additional windows in gabled dormers. The chimney stack has grouped diagonal shafts. Inside, there are jowled posts, heavy studding, and chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. The tiebeams on either side of the central chimney bay have been removed, and the roof has been rebuilt to a steeper pitch than the original, which may have been thatched before being replaced with tiles.
Local climate
66 and 67, Ridgewell Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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