38, Head Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
38, Head Street
- WRENN ID
- riven-paling-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 38, Head Street, Halstead, CO9 2BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 816 308
- Coordinates
- 51.94644, 0.64171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 38 on Head Street is a building from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and a red plain tile gambrel roof that is half hipped at the front. The building has double hung sash windows with glazing bars, and there is a 19th-century shop window. A large red brick chimney is located on the rear gable.
Local climate
38, Head Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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