74, Nunnery Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
74, Nunnery Street
- WRENN ID
- high-dormer-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 74, Nunnery Street, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 780 358
- Coordinates
- 51.99219, 0.59152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
74 Nunnery Street is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with some later alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame and has panel pargetting. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and features one gabled dormer. There is a red brick chimney stack located on the left side of the building. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes one three-light casement window. The entrance has a central 20th-century hipped porch with red tiles and a part-glazed door. Inside, bridging joists, side girts, and top plates are visible.
Local climate
74, Nunnery Street 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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