Little Acre is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Little Acre
- WRENN ID
- quartered-oriel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Acre, Sible Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 776 333
- Coordinates
- 51.97043, 0.58494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Acre is a cottage that dates from the 17th or 18th century, with some later alterations. It has a timber frame and is plastered, topped with a thatched roof featuring one gabled dormer and one eyebrow dormer. The building includes three plastered chimney stacks and a small lean-to extension on the left side. It is one storey high with attics and has four 20th-century casement windows. There is a boarded door to the right and a door with sidelights to the left extension. The interior showcases exposed timber framing.
Local climate
Little Acre 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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