Sleepy Hollow is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. A C16 Cottage.

Sleepy Hollow

WRENN ID
riven-eave-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Sleepy Hollow, Water Lane, Shalford
OS grid reference
TL 731 274
Coordinates
51.91828, 0.51597
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sleepy Hollow is a cottage built around 1570, with alterations made in the 20th century. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and features a thatched roof. The cottage has two bays facing northwest, with a 18th-century external stack at the right end (the upper part has been rebuilt) and a 20th-century external stack at the left end. There is a single-storey extension added to the rear of the left bay. The building is one storey high with attics and has two 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century door located at the front of a gabled porch.

On the rear wall, there are three 17th-century horizontally sliding sash windows with 18 lights, some of which contain contemporary glass; one of these windows is enclosed by the rear extension. Additionally, there is a 12-light sash window in the right return wall, which has been re-sited. Inside, the cottage features jowled posts, curved braces set within heavy studs, stop-chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section, and original rebated floorboards. There is also a blocked window in the upper storey of the left return wall, which has diamond mullions.

Local climate

Sleepy Hollow 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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