P and A Wood is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House.

P and A Wood

WRENN ID
grey-pediment-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House
Address
P and A Wood, High Street, Great Bardfield
OS grid reference
TL 674 304
Coordinates
51.94746, 0.4355
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

P and A Wood is a house that has been converted into a garage and stores. It dates from the 16th century or earlier and was altered in the 17th and 18th centuries. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It has four bays facing northwest, featuring an axial stack in the second bay from the left, which originally formed a lobby-entrance that is now blocked off internally.

There is a two-storey extension along the entire length of the rear and a long commercial garage beyond. The building stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there is one 20th-century reproduction sash window with 16 lights, a six-panel door with a moulded architrave and cornice from the 18th century, and 20th-century plate glass display windows. On the first floor, there are three early 20th-century sash windows. The original walls are approximately 3 metres high and were raised by about 1.5 metres in the 17th century.

Inside, there is one exposed transverse beam that is chamfered with step stops, and one axial beam that is chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The roof features clasped purlins, with smoke-blackened medieval rafters reused as purlins. This building is likely a hall house with an inserted stack, but there is no visible evidence of the framing of the lower walls.

Local climate

P and A Wood 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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