Fairy Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. A C17 House.
Fairy Hall
- WRENN ID
- far-render-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fairy Hall, Fairy Hall Lane, Rayne
- OS grid reference
- TL 728 221
- Coordinates
- 51.87129, 0.51001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairy Hall is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has red plain tiled roofs. The building has a gabled crosswing on the left with an attached single-storey crosswing, and there are wings at the rear. The main range has an off-centre chimney stack, while the crosswing has a chimney stack at the rear. The house has a complex plan and is mainly two storeys high. The front has a window arrangement of three small-paned casements, with an additional casement in the left outshot. There is a red tiled bay on the ground floor to the right, and the entrance features a six-panelled door with a moulded surround, a moulded pediment above the frieze, and a flat canopy.
Local climate
Fairy Hall 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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