Shell House About 50 Metres West South West of Fennes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1992. Shell house.
Shell House About 50 Metres West South West of Fennes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-joist-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1992
- Type
- Shell house
- OS grid reference
- TL 761 272
- Coordinates
- 51.91618, 0.5598
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shell house, built in the early 19th century, located about 50 meters west-southwest of Fennes Farmhouse. This structure is designed in a rustic Gothick style and is constructed from flint with a shell-encrusted interior. It has a circular shape topped with a conical thatched roof. The entrance features an ogee-arched tripartite design supported by timber posts, and the original decorative twigwork doors are located inside the building. There is a single light window. Inside, the walls display shells embedded in plaster arranged in decorative patterns, along with fragments of stained glass. A low bench runs around the interior walls. At the time of the survey, the building was noted to be in poor condition, with a section of thatch missing.
Local climate
Shell House About 50 Metres West South West of Fennes Farmhouse 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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