Davenants is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Davenants
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-loggia-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Davenants, Swan Street, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3HT
- OS grid reference
- TL 782 338
- Coordinates
- 51.97458, 0.5943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Davenants is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations, including a lower range to the right. It is constructed with a timber frame and has panel plastering. The roof is hipped and covered with red plain tiles, hipped to the right on the extensions. There are red brick chimney stacks located to the left, off centre, at the rear, and to the right. The building has two storeys, featuring a three-window range on the first floor and a four-window range on the ground floor, both consisting of leaded vari-light casements with transoms. The central entrance has a six-panelled door with a moulded surround, brackets supporting a moulded pediment, and there is a vertically boarded door leading to the right extension.
Local climate
Davenants 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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