Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. A Late C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- empty-cornice-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower House, Lamb Lane, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 782 333
- Coordinates
- 51.96988, 0.59309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House is a house with a rear range dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and a front range built in the late 18th century. The house is timber-framed and has a rough render finish. It has a grey slate roof and painted brick chimney stacks on the right and left sides. The building incorporates outbuildings to the rear left. The front of the house has two storeys and a three-window arrangement of small-paned vertically sliding sash windows. A central boarded door has two lights and a moulded surround with plain pilasters and capitals, topped by an open pediment. A gabled cast iron lattice porch covers the entrance. Interior features include stick balusters and a wreathed handrail to the staircase, and beaded vertically boarded doors. The building was originally a mill house.
Local climate
Tower 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- 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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