24 and 26, Church Ponds is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
24 and 26, Church Ponds
- WRENN ID
- tangled-paling-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 24 and 26, Church Ponds, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 784 356
- Coordinates
- 51.99068, 0.59769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two cottages, numbered 24 and 26, located on Church Ponds, date from the 16th century or earlier, with 19th century and later alterations and additions. The cottages are timber framed and plastered on the right side, while the left side is faced with painted brick. They have a red plain tiled roof and an off-centre red brick chimney stack. The buildings are two storeys high and feature a 2:1 window arrangement, including 20th century three-light casements and small-paned vertically sliding sash and casement windows. There is a 20th century half-glazed door on the left and two vertically boarded doors on the right. A drip board is present on the ground floor of number 24.
Local climate
24 and 26, Church Ponds 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
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