Lone's Hole (South) is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage.

Lone's Hole (South)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Lone's Hole (South), Codham's Lane, Shalford
OS grid reference
TL 734 284
Coordinates
51.92772, 0.52119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lone's Hole (south) is a cottage dating from the late 18th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a thatched roof. The building has three bays facing southwest and features a central stack. There is a 19th-century rear extension with a catslide roof. The cottage is one storey with attics and has a two-window range of 20th-century casements. The lower windows have external hinged shutters, while the upper windows are set in swept dormers. The original boarded door, which has a small inserted pane, is located in a 20th-century tiled gabled porch. There is also one plain boarded door from the 20th century. The roof is gambrel in style. Inside, there are plain axial beams and joists that are plastered to the soffits. The cottage has two hearths back to back, featuring brick arches on iron straps that create a lobby-entrance. An original stair is located to the rear of the stack, and there is an original brick floor in the left room along with original floorboards. This cottage and the one immediately to the north are both referred to as Lone's Hole, with this one being identified as the south cottage.

Local climate

Lone's Hole (South) 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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