Tape House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Tape House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-bronze-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tape House, 14, Church Street, Sible Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 776 341
- Coordinates
- 51.97696, 0.58569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tape House is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. It features a red plain tiled roof and a central red brick chimney stack. The building has buttresses at the left and right angles and stands two storeys tall. The first floor has three windows, while the ground floor has four windows, all of which are leaded two-light casements with transoms. The entrance is marked by a centrally located vertically boarded door. Inside, the cottage showcases an exposed timber frame and a restored inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Tape House 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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