Hillcrest the Dolls House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottages.
Hillcrest the Dolls House
- WRENN ID
- solemn-groin-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Hillcrest the Dolls House, 33, Bayley Street, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 357
- Coordinates
- 51.99152, 0.59893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillcrest and The Dolls House are two cottages located in Castle Hedingham, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. They are constructed from timber framing and plaster, with some areas featuring painted brick facing. The cottages have a red plain tiled roof with two levels and a central red brick chimney stack. The buildings are one storey with attics on the left side, which includes two 20th-century flat-headed dormers, while the right side has two storeys with one three-light casement window. The ground floor features three three-light casement windows and two recessed vertically boarded doors. The windows and doors on the left are adorned with moulded drip hoods above, while the right door and window have pentice boards.
Local climate
Hillcrest the Dolls 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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