Abbey National Building Society Offices Bretts Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1986. Shop, office.

Abbey National Building Society Offices Bretts Stores

WRENN ID
veiled-storey-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1986
Type
Shop, office
Address
Abbey National Building Society Offices Bretts Stores, Spring Lane, St. Osyth
OS grid reference
TM 123 156
Coordinates
51.79904, 1.07788
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Abbey National Building Society Offices, also known as Bretts Stores, is a shop and office that was formerly a house. It dates from the 16th or 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. The building features a timber frame with plaster and has red plain tiled roofs. There are no visible chimneys from the road. The structure has a central gabled crosswing and a lower roof level on the right range, which houses the Abbey National Building Society office.

It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical arrangement of small paned casement windows on the first floor, with a pattern of one window, one window, one window. The ground floor on the left range and gable has a 19th-century shop front that includes two light windows, panelled side pilasters, a frieze, and flat canopies. There is a central recessed shop door with pilasters, a moulded frieze, and a flat canopy supported by brackets. The right range features reveal panels leading to a 20th-century door and a 20th-century shop window, along with a slanting canopy on brackets. To the left of the main building is a two-storey infill structure that has a first-floor casement window and double garage doors.

Local climate

Abbey National Building Society Offices Bretts Stores receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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