Sextons Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Shed.
Sextons Shed
- WRENN ID
- lone-crypt-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Shed
- Address
- Sextons Shed, Sandon Footpath, Great Baddow
- OS grid reference
- TL 729 048
- Coordinates
- 51.71589, 0.50205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sextons Shed is a former school, originally built in the mid-15th century. This timber-framed building has been altered in the 18th and 19th centuries, featuring red brick on the south side and weatherboarding on the north side. It has casement windows and a tiled roof. Inside, there is a well-preserved frame with a collar purlin and crown post roof. The building is listed for its 15th-century frame.
Local climate
Sextons Shed 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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