132, Nunnery Street 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.
132, Nunnery Street
- WRENN ID
- hushed-gateway-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 132, Nunnery Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3DR
- OS grid reference
- TL 777 356
- Coordinates
- 51.99065, 0.58726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage located at 132 Nunnery Street, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations. It has a timber frame and is plastered, featuring panel pargetting. The roof is red pantiles, complemented by two grey slate catslide dormers. There are off-centre and external right red brick chimney stacks. The cottage is one storey with attics and has a five-window range of casements with glazing bars, as well as vertically sliding sashes in the dormers. A 20th-century enclosed gabled porch with a vertically boarded door adds to its character.
Local climate
132, Nunnery Street 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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