Shearing Place is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House.
Shearing Place
- WRENN ID
- broken-keystone-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shearing Place, Hickford Hill Road, Belchamp St. Paul
- OS grid reference
- TL 790 442
- Coordinates
- 52.06739, 0.61094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shearing Place is a house that dates from the 18th century, with some later features. It has an early 19th century facade made of gault brick and a double range grey slate roof. The building has a parapet with coping and a bank below it, with pilasters on both the left and right sides. The central section features a bow. The house is two storeys high with attics and has a window arrangement of 1:1:1, consisting of small paned vertically sliding sash windows on the first floor. There are French windows with glazed margins on both the right and left sides. The entrance features a bowed Tuscan doorcase with moulded capitals and bases, a plain frieze, and a canopy above. The door is a six-panel design, topped by a rectangular fanlight with ornamental glazing bars. Additionally, there are four symmetrically placed red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Shearing Place 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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