Marchants is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Marchants
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-railing-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Marchants, 6 and 8, the Street, Rayne
- OS grid reference
- TL 729 226
- Coordinates
- 51.87549, 0.51135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marchants is a building that was originally a house and shop, now divided into two dwellings. It dates from the 17th or 18th century, with some later alterations. The structure is timber framed and has a rough rendered finish, topped with a red plain tiled roof. There is a red brick chimney stack located to the left of the main range, and a gabled crosswing to the left side. A gabled dormer is positioned on the right of the main range. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a window arrangement of one window on the first floor and three windows, and one window on the ground floor with two windows, including a 20th-century flat-roofed bay on the far right. The windows are mainly vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars, while the attics have small paned casements. There are two panelled doors with friezes and flat canopies.
Local climate
Marchants 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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