54a and 54, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. A C18 Dwelling. 1 related planning application.
54a and 54, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- drifting-gateway-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Dwelling
- Address
- 54a and 54, Church Street, Witham, CM8 2JH
- OS grid reference
- TL 817 154
- Coordinates
- 51.80848, 0.63526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th or early 19th century timber-framed and plastered house, located on Church Street. It has a gabled south end and a long, sloping rear roof with shared bargeboards. The west front has two window bays, featuring double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. Number 54A has a corner entrance flanked by two small 19th-century shop windows. Numbers 54A, 54, and 56 form a group with number 11.
Local climate
54a and 54, Church Street 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- 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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