Bucks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Bucks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-mortar-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bucks Cottage, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 754 353
- Coordinates
- 51.98852, 0.55398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bucks Cottage is a small cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with 20th-century additions on the right and some alterations. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a thatched roof that slopes down to a central 20th-century porch. It is a single storey structure with three 20th-century casement windows. The cottage also has a small-paned porch and door from the 20th century. Inside, there are exposed braces on the walls and stop-chamfered bridging joists.
Local climate
Bucks 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- 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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