Shellards is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. A C15 Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Shellards
- WRENN ID
- scattered-sandstone-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shellards, the Green, Wickham St. Paul, CO9 2PP
- OS grid reference
- TL 829 365
- Coordinates
- 51.99708, 0.66373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shellards is a cottage dating from the late 14th or early 15th century, originally a hall house. It is timber-framed and plastered with a thatched roof, half-hipped to the right and projecting to the left front, featuring an off-centre, flat-headed tiled dormer. A red brick chimney stack is located off-centre, and another is present on the outshot. The front has a two-window range of 20th-century casement windows, with 19th-century casements within the dormer and on the right return. A small window is present in the kitchen outshot. A four-board door is set to the right of the outshut. The interior retains much of the original timber frame, exhibiting halved and bridled top plate scarfs. A 16th-century inserted floor and chimney stack are also present, dividing the interior into four bays.
Local climate
Shellards 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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