Brickpoint Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Brickpoint Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-finial-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brickpoint Cottage, Sible Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 754 352
- Coordinates
- 51.98837, 0.55381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brickpoint Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with 20th-century additions to the left and alterations. It is constructed from timber framing and is covered in parget plaster. The cottage features a two-level thatched roof with three gabled dormers and a 20th-century porch on the left side. There is a red brick chimney stack located in the center of the right range. The building is one storey with attics and has four 20th-century leaded casement windows. The entrance includes a 20th-century vertically boarded door. Inside, there are chamfered beams in the original range.
Local climate
Brickpoint Cottage 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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