Lock Up to Left of Mary's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1975. Lock-up.
Lock Up to Left of Mary's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-crypt-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1975
- Type
- Lock-up
- Address
- Lock Up to Left of Mary's Cottage, Shalford Road, Rayne
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 228
- Coordinates
- 51.87728, 0.51328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a village lock-up, dating from around 1819. It is a small structure made of red brick, topped with a gabled red tiled roof. The lock-up features a vertically boarded oak door that has three vertical rows of circular ventilator holes, with a metal grill behind it. This is one of the very few remaining lock-ups in Essex.
Local climate
Lock Up to Left of Mary's 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 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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