Recess is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Recess
- WRENN ID
- narrow-pewter-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Recess, 14, Chippinghill, Witham, CM8 2DE
- OS grid reference
- TL 818 152
- Coordinates
- 51.80641, 0.63635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th century grey gault brick house. It is two storeys high with a three-window front. The windows are double-hung sashes without glazing bars, set in plain reveals. A central six-panel door is set within a wooden doorcase, which features panelled reveals, fluted pilasters, and a cornice hood. Above the door is a rectangular fanlight. The front of the building has end pilasters, and the central section, containing one window and the doorway, projects slightly. The ground floor windows have louvred shutters. The roof is slate and hipped. The building is included on the list for its group value, forming a group with numbers 35 and 2, and with number 16 Bramstons.
Local climate
Recess 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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