The Manse, The Cedars and Gray's Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House, shop. 1 related planning application.

The Manse, The Cedars and Gray's Shop

WRENN ID
small-pillar-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1962
Type
House, shop
Address
The Manse, The Cedars and Gray's Shop, 34, Queen Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3HA
OS grid reference
TL 784 353
Coordinates
51.98798, 0.5967
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manse, The Cedars, and Gray's Shop is a row of two houses and one shop located on Queen Street in Castle Hedingham. The buildings date from the 18th century but have a core that may date back to the 16th century or earlier. They are primarily timber framed and plastered, with No. 38 featuring a painted brick facade. The roofs are covered with red plain tiles, with No. 38 having a slightly lower pitch.

The buildings have a moulded eaves cornice on Nos. 34 and 36 and feature four red brick chimney stacks, with the right stack having attached shafts. The structures are two storeys high, with a window arrangement of 1:3:4 on the first floor and 1:2:3 on the ground floor, showcasing small paned vertically sliding sash windows. No. 38 has a bay shop window on the ground floor and a three-light small paned vertically sliding sash window on the first floor. The shop has a six-panel door with pilasters and a flat canopy supported by scroll brackets. Nos. 34 and 36 have two-panel doors with two lights, moulded pilasters with capitals and bases, and moulded flat canopies. There are wings at the rear of the buildings.

Local climate

The Manse, The Cedars and Gray's Shop 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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