Kalon Shepherd's Cottage Shepherd's Place is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House, cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Kalon Shepherd's Cottage Shepherd's Place
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-pier-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Kalon Shepherd's Cottage Shepherd's Place, Bridge Street, Great Bardfield, CM7 4TA
- OS grid reference
- TL 675 308
- Coordinates
- 51.95085, 0.43659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kalon Shepherd's Cottage, located on Shepherd's Place, is a house that has been divided into three cottages. It dates from the 16th century or earlier and underwent alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries. The building is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features a three-bay hall range facing east and a two-bay crosswing to the left. There is a late 16th-century axial stack at the junction of these sections, along with a 19th-century external stack on the right return wall.
At the back of the hall range, there is a two-storey extension from the 19th or 20th century with a slate roof, and a single-storey extension with a hipped roof behind the crosswing. The building stands two storeys high. The crosswing, known as Kalon, has an underbuilt jetty and a one-window range of 20th-century casements, with the entrance located in the left return wall. The middle section, Shepherd's Place, features one 20th-century bow window, a 20th-century casement on the first floor, and a 20th-century lean-to porch with a door on the right side. Shepherd's Cottage, the right end, has a one-window range of early 19th-century sashes with 16 lights and a four-panel door topped with a shallow hood on scrolled brackets.
The hall range was raised approximately 1.5 metres in the 17th century, with some smoke-blackened rafters being reused in the clasped purlin roof. Additionally, Shepherd's Place has a bread oven located at the rear of the main hearth.
Local climate
Kalon Shepherd's Cottage Shepherd's Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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