Henny Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. A 15th century House. 7 related planning applications.
Henny Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-pinnacle-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Henny Cottage, Henny Street, Great Henny, CO10 7LS
- OS grid reference
- TL 879 385
- Coordinates
- 52.01382, 0.7373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Henny Cottage is a house dating from the late 14th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that has a gable at the west end and a half-hipped gablet at the east. The cottage is one storey high with attics and features two eyebrow dormers on the front slope. There is a lean-to extension at the west end and a tall stack on the east end. The windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights. Originally a small open hall house, it has a 16th-century inserted floor that is now partially removed. The structure has widely spaced studs, heavy arch bracing, and interrupted tie beams at both the high and low ends. One bay to the west is a later extension.
Local climate
Henny 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 98% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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