8, Head Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. House.

8, Head Street

WRENN ID
south-tallow-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1978
Type
House
Address
8, Head Street, Halstead
OS grid reference
TL 815 307
Coordinates
51.94549, 0.64071
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 8 on Head Street is a late 17th-century building that has been altered in the 19th century. It is located next to No 6 and features a two-window range with double-hung sash windows. The building has two ground floor bays and one gabled dormer. It is topped with a grey slate roof, which retains its original structure, including stop-chamfered beams.

Local climate

8, Head Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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