Luce's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Luce's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-banister-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Luce's Cottage, Luce's Lane, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 786 355
- Coordinates
- 51.98998, 0.59993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Luce's Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame, featuring some plastering, exposed frame sections, and 18th century red brick facing. The roof is hipped and covered with red plain tiles on the left side. The building has a two-storey crosswing that includes a single-storey outshot extension to the left, while the right side has a one-storey and attic range. There is a red brick chimney stack on the left. The ground floor has a range of three square leaded horizontal sliding sash windows. A 20th century vertically boarded door is located on the right return.
Local climate
Luce'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 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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