Dragon House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Timber-framed house. 2 related planning applications.

Dragon House

WRENN ID
ragged-turret-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Timber-framed house
Address
Dragon House, 41, Bradford Street, CM7 9AT
OS grid reference
TL 760 239
Coordinates
51.88589, 0.55653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dragon House is a Grade II listed building located on Bradford Street in Bocking. It is primarily a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered house featuring a jettied upper storey, although parts of the structure are believed to date back to between 1480 and 1490. A notable plaster head on the center of the first storey may represent Anne Boleyn, suggesting a historical connection, or it could have been the sign of an earlier inn, possibly called the Angel. The house has two storeys and a four-window range with casement windows. The first storey windows include some old leaded lights, while the ground storey windows have glazing bars with small panes, including one oriel bay window. The entrance features a six-panel door with a moulded architrave, and there is a cart entrance at the south end. The roof is tiled.

Dragon House is part of a group of listed buildings that includes Nos 19 to 41 on the west side and Nos 4 to 20 on the east side, as well as forming a group with Bawn Cottage and Bawn Close. Additionally, it is grouped with Nos 37 to 89 on the west side and Nos 24 to 56A on the east side.

Local climate

Dragon House 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 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
  • 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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