House and Shop Occupied by Cameron Chemist is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
House and Shop Occupied by Cameron Chemist
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-stair-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- House and Shop Occupied by Cameron Chemist, Great Square, CM7 1UA
- OS grid reference
- TL 757 230
- Coordinates
- 51.87853, 0.55202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building known as the House and Shop occupied by Cameron Chemist is an 18th-century structure featuring a timber frame with plaster. It stands two storeys high and has a two-window range on both the north front and the east side, with double-hung sash windows that include glazing bars in flush cased frames. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front and a 20th-century single-storey shop addition on the east side. The roof is tiled and has four hipped ends on the east side. This building, along with the Constitutional Club and No 23, forms a group with Hill House in the Market Place.
Local climate
House and Shop Occupied by Cameron Chemist sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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