18 and 20, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. House. 3 related planning applications.
18 and 20, High Street
- WRENN ID
- peeling-buttress-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 18 and 20, High Street, Halstead, CO9 2AP
- OS grid reference
- TL 814 306
- Coordinates
- 51.9451, 0.63817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th-century timber-framed building with a 17th-century second floor addition and an 18th-century facade, located on the north-west side of High Street. The building has a three-window range of double-hung sash windows. It features a parapet with a central pediment and a modillioned wooden cornice below. Three-storey bay windows flank the central doorcase. The first and second floors were altered in the 19th century, and a shopfront occupies part of the ground floor. A central first-floor Venetian window is present. Internally, the timber frame is visible on all walls except the front. Two small fragments of 17th-century wall painting survive in the north-east corner of the first floor.
Local climate
18 and 20, High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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