Town House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1953. House. 4 related planning applications.

Town House

WRENN ID
rough-thatch-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 May 1953
Type
House
Address
Town House, High Street, Great Bardfield, CM7 4RE
OS grid reference
TL 674 304
Coordinates
51.94762, 0.43526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a town house, originally part of a larger dwelling, dating from the 16th century, with alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The main range, facing southeast, has four bays and includes an axial stack and an 18th-century external stack at the left end. A 16th-century internal stack, now positioned between this house and Town House Cottages (formerly part of the same house), is located at the right end. A 17th-century rear wing extends behind this stack at a steep angle to the main range, featuring an 18th-century stack at its end, and a single-storey extension roofed with red clay Roman tiles. A 17th-century stair tower is situated in the rear angle. The front elevation has two splayed bays with early 20th-century sash windows, each containing 8-16-8 panes of glass. Above, three late 18th-century sashes with 16 panes each are present. The entrance features a 6-panel door with glazed upper panels, set within a late 18th-century moulded and pedimented doorcase. A hipped gablet sits at the right end of the roof. The rear has a late 17th-century and an early 18th-century three-light window, each with a single wrought iron casement.

Internally, the house retains jowled posts, a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops, exposed plain horizontal section joists, and an underbuilt jetty. A blocked early 17th-century window is visible in the right wall of the rear extension. Some 18th-century pine panelling is found on the first floor of the main range.

Local climate

Town House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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