Prospect House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House.
Prospect House
- WRENN ID
- old-hearth-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect House, the Green, Finchingfield, CM7 4JZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 683 327
- Coordinates
- 51.96812, 0.44892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect House is an early 19th-century house located on the west side of The Green in Finchingsfield. The building features a plastered exterior and a slate roof, with chimney shafts made of gault brick. It has a square plan facing east and includes four internal stacks arranged symmetrically. At the rear, there is a full-width slated canopy and a conservatory situated at the rear right corner.
The house has two storeys and a two-window range of original sash windows with 16 lights, along with one window above the door that has twelve lights and a semi-circular head. The entrance features a half-glazed door with an overlight, set within a portico supported by wooden columns on square plinths, and accessed by two stone steps. The roof is of H-plan with two front gables, where the pitches are faced with fishscale slates, while the remainder of the roof is covered with plain slates. Most of the side windows are original sashes, and many retain their crown glass.
Local climate
Prospect House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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