Highways is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Highways
- WRENN ID
- idle-finial-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Highways, Shalford Road, Rayne, CM77 6BT
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 229
- Coordinates
- 51.87783, 0.51309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highways is a cottage that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, featuring plaster on the returns. The cottage has a thatched roof, which includes two gabled dormers and one eyebrow dormer. There are two red brick chimney stacks; the one on the rear left has a diagonal shaft, while the one on the right has an external offset shaft. The building is one storey with attics and has a three-window range of small paned casements. To the right, there is a glazed door with two sidelights. At the forward left, there is a single storey extension covered in grey slate, which has a two-light matching window and a vertically boarded door.
Local climate
Highways 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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