480, Rickstones Road is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
480, Rickstones Road
- WRENN ID
- carved-buttress-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 480, Rickstones Road, Rivenhall, CM8 3HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 828 172
- Coordinates
- 51.82393, 0.65223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century thatched cottage, possibly incorporating an earlier timber frame, located on Rickstones Road in Rivenhall. It is a single-story building with attics, and has two windows. The windows are largely modern casements, although the attic windows retain their original horizontal sliding sash design. The roof is thatched, topped with a central chimney stack.
Local climate
480, Rickstones Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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