The Bays is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Bays
- WRENN ID
- tilted-steeple-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Bays, 18, Swan Street, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3RE
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 335
- Coordinates
- 51.9719, 0.59519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, likely dating to the 18th century or earlier, with subsequent alterations and additions. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a red plain tiled roof. The house features central and external right chimney stacks made of red brick. The exterior has a parapet with a moulded and dentilled cornice. The roof is hipped and tiled on the right and left two-storey bays. The first floor has a 1:2:1 window arrangement, with vertically sliding sash windows, except for the two central first-floor windows, which are casements with transoms. The ground floor has a two-window range of vertically sliding sash windows. A central two-panelled door has a small paned light, reeded pilasters, a moulded frieze, and a pediment.
Local climate
The Bays 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- 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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