34, 36 and 38, Church Street 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.

34, 36 and 38, Church Street

WRENN ID
inner-clay-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
House
Address
34, 36 and 38, Church Street, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3NT
OS grid reference
TL 776 342
Coordinates
51.97867, 0.58495
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 34, 36, and 38 Church Street is a house that has been converted into three cottages. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and has undergone later alterations and additions. The building is primarily timber framed and plastered, featuring some pargetting and brick facing, with red plain tiled roofs. There are central and right red brick chimney stacks. The center range is one storey with attics, while the right and left sides have two-storey gabled crosswings and a single-storey extension to the left. Flat-headed dormers are present on the right and left returns, and there are two gabled dormers on the center range. The windows consist of a 1:1:1 arrangement of various small-paned casements and vertically sliding sashes. The left extension has double garage doors, while the left crosswing features a 20th-century panelled door in a moulded surround. The center range has a four-panelled door with a moulded surround and dentilled frieze, and there is another 20th-century panelled door on the right return.

Local climate

34, 36 and 38, Church 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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