Sailmaking Loft is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Workshop.
Sailmaking Loft
- WRENN ID
- moated-gable-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Sailmaking Loft, 22, Waterside, Brightlingsea
- OS grid reference
- TM 084 163
- Coordinates
- 51.80663, 1.02225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sailmaking Loft is a 19th-century boat builders workshop and sail loft located in Brightlingsea. It features a timber frame with weatherboarding and a brick plinth, topped by a grey slate roof that is gabled towards the road. The building stands two storeys tall and has double vertically boarded doors on the left side, with similar doors above on the first floor. There is a vertically boarded door on the right side as well. The first floor includes a large transomed four-light window, while the ground floor has a four-light window. A hoist pole is attached to the gable. The building is still in use as a boat building workshop.
Local climate
Sailmaking Loft sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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