Card's is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1979. A Late C15/Early C16 House.

Card's

WRENN ID
quartered-step-jet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1979
Type
House
Address
Card's, Bakers Lane, Black Notley
OS grid reference
TL 744 202
Coordinates
51.85371, 0.53231
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Card's is a house dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof that is hipped with gablets. The house features an off-centre right front red brick chimney stack and has a rear extension, along with a single storey garage extension to the right.

The building stands two storeys tall and has a three-window range of square leaded 20th-century casements. To the left, there is a 20th-century vertically boarded door, and a 20th-century red tiled gabled porch supported by carved brackets. The timber frame is virtually complete, consisting of three bays and a chimney bay, with main frame elements that are stop-chamfered and include jowled storey posts. The integral floor has centre tenons and soffit shoulders, with soffit tenons featuring diminished haunches for the later inserted hall on the first floor. The halved and bridled top plate scarfs are also notable. The roof structure includes three two-arm crown posts, and the house retains its original internal chimney stack and staircase with solid oak treads.

Local climate

Card's 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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