The Kicking Dicky is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1981. A 15th century House.
The Kicking Dicky
- WRENN ID
- roaming-fireplace-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Period
- 15th century
- Address
- The Kicking Dicky, Finchingfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 699 307
- Coordinates
- 51.94956, 0.47092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kicking Dicky is a house that dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th, 18th, and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with a plastered exterior and a thatched roof. The building has three bays facing southwest, which includes a two-bay hall and an originally storeyed end that was extended by one bay to the left in the 18th century. There is an axial stack and an external stack at the right end, both of which terminate below the eaves. A 20th-century extension has been added to the rear of the right end. The house is one storey with attics and has three 20th-century casement windows, along with three additional casements in gabled dormers. The entrance features a 20th-century door. The external plaster is designed in panels with combed guilloche patterns. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams with exposed plain joists of horizontal section that were inserted in the hall. The brickwork of the main hearth has been renewed, and there is an 18th-century corner cupboard with shaped shelves.
Local climate
The Kicking Dicky 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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