The Sugar Loaves is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The Sugar Loaves

WRENN ID
floating-alcove-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
Public house
Address
The Sugar Loaves, Swan Street, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3PX
OS grid reference
TL 779 345
Coordinates
51.98055, 0.58996
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Sugar Loaves is a public house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It features an exposed timber frame with plaster infill and has a hipped red tiled roof. The building has red brick chimney stacks on the right, left, and center. It is two stories tall and has a three-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. The ground floor left window is a 19th-century flat roofed oriel. There are central and right plank and muntin doors in plain surrounds, accessed by steps. The building includes halved wall braces and a 17th-century leaded window with pightle hooks on the right return. At the rear, there is a brick-faced wing.

Local climate

The Sugar Loaves 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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