Spiders is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 January 1983. A Georgian House.
Spiders
- WRENN ID
- night-latch-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 January 1983
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Spiders, North End, Little Yeldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 789 390
- Coordinates
- 52.02061, 0.60607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spiders is a small house dating from the 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It has three bays oriented east-west, featuring a central chimney stack. To the east, there is a single-storey extension with a gambrel roof from the 18th or 19th century. A single-storey extension with a slate roof to the south dates from the 19th century, and another extension with a flat roof was added in the 20th century. The house has two storeys and includes four 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor, along with two more in gabled half-dormers. Inside, the house showcases exposed framing, primary straight bracing, and axial beams. The owners possess documentary evidence indicating that the house was rebuilt after a fire in 1718.
Local climate
Spiders 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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