Falcon House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House.
Falcon House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-buttress-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Falcon House, 4, Falcon Square, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 356
- Coordinates
- 51.99031, 0.59892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Falcon House is a house dating from the early 16th century or earlier, with later alterations. It features an exposed timber frame with plaster infill and a red plain tiled roof, along with rear red brick chimney stacks. The building consists of two ranges and is two storeys high with a cellar. The first floor has a window arrangement of four light square leaded casements, with the left window set between now blocked four light mullion windows, and a possible adjoining mullion on the right. Each range has a jetty supported by carved jetty brackets. The left side of the first floor includes a central four light square leaded casement, with glazed mullions on either side. There is a six-panelled door with two lights above, featuring a segmental pointed head arch. To the right, there is a carriageway with original boarded and nailed doors on the left return wall. The cellar is made of 16th-century brick, and the interior retains original doorways and moulded ceiling beams.
Local climate
Falcon House 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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