Sweet Briar is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage.
Sweet Briar
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-bracket-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sweet Briar, 15, Shalford Road, Rayne
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 228
- Coordinates
- 51.87747, 0.51316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sweet Briar is a cottage that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped by a thatched roof featuring two gabled dormers. The cottage has an off-centre red brick chimney stack and is one storey high with attics, along with a single-storey lean-to extension on the left side. The front has a window arrangement of one large window flanked by three smaller paned casements. An open gabled porch with small paned glazing leads to a vertically boarded door.
Local climate
Sweet Briar 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
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