Numbers 1 and 2 Thatched Cottages and St Crispins is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1978. Cottage.

Numbers 1 and 2 Thatched Cottages and St Crispins

WRENN ID
western-vestry-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1978
Type
Cottage
Address
Numbers 1 and 2 Thatched Cottages and St Crispins, Leather Lane, Great Yeldham
OS grid reference
TL 761 384
Coordinates
52.01647, 0.56571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1 and 2 Thatched Cottages and St. Crispins is a house dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 19th centuries. It is now divided into three cottages. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring some imitation framing, with a thatched roof. It is aligned east-west and has a southern aspect. A central chimney stack was added in the 16th century, along with 19th-century external chimney stacks at each end. There is a single-storey lean-to extension that runs the full length of the rear, dating from the 19th or 20th century. The building has two storeys and includes three 20th-century doors, two of which are half-glazed. On the ground floor, there are four 19th-century horizontally-sliding sash windows with 24 lights, and five 20th-century casement windows on the first floor. The eastern half, known as St. Crispins, features imitation framing on the front elevation. The roof has side purlins.

Local climate

Numbers 1 and 2 Thatched Cottages and St Crispins 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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