121-139, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1986. House. 21 related planning applications.
121-139, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- vast-trefoil-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- 121-139, Church Street, CM7 5LF
- OS grid reference
- TL 761 260
- Coordinates
- 51.905, 0.55895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of five pairs of houses, located on Church Street in Bocking. They were built in 1872 of red brick with grey gault brick dressings, and have red plain tile roofs with crested ridge tiles. The houses are two storeys high and feature two gables to each pair. Each gable is topped with decorative bargeboards which incorporate ball pendants and wrought iron finials. Each pair has a four-window range, with the windows being 2- and 3-light iron casements featuring mullions and decorative glazing bars. Stone plaques are affixed to each gable, bearing a sunk quatrefoil and the inscription 'AD 1872'. The houses were commissioned by Samuel Courtauld as high-quality housing to support his Bocking Weaving Mills and form part of the 19th-century Courtauld development in north-central Essex, centered on Bocking and Halstead.
Local climate
121-139, Church 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 — 15 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 21 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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