Waggon Lodge Approximately 40 Metres South of Cressing Temple Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. Waggon lodge.
Waggon Lodge Approximately 40 Metres South of Cressing Temple Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- veiled-landing-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1986
- Type
- Waggon lodge
- OS grid reference
- TL 798 186
- Coordinates
- 51.83708, 0.60977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waggon lodge, located approximately 40 metres south of Cressing Temple Farmhouse, dates from the 18th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a thatched roof. The structure consists of 8 bays aligned northeast to southwest and is open on the northwest side. It features primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, bolted knees to the tiebeams and front wallplate, and a clasped purlin roof. The plinth is made of red brick in English bond and stands about 0.50 metre high. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Waggon Lodge Approximately 40 Metres South of Cressing Temple Farmhouse 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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