Possibly Cottage North of the Rising Sun Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Possibly Cottage North of the Rising Sun Inn
- WRENN ID
- weathered-rubblework-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Possibly Cottage North of the Rising Sun Inn, 72, Nunnery Street, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 780 357
- Coordinates
- 51.99207, 0.59161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is possibly a cottage located north of the Rising Sun Inn. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with some later alterations. The structure is timber framed and plastered, featuring a roof with grey slate and red plain tiles across two levels. There is a catslide dormer on the right side and a red brick chimney stack on the left. The cottage has one storey and an attic on the right and two storeys on the left. The front has a two-window range with 19th and 20th century casements, a central 20th century part-glazed gabled porch, and a glazed 20th century door.
Local climate
Possibly Cottage North of the Rising Sun Inn 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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