Hill Malthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Malthouse. 3 related planning applications.

Hill Malthouse

WRENN ID
inner-soffit-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Malthouse
Address
Hill Malthouse, Church Lane, CM7 5SB
OS grid reference
TL 758 248
Coordinates
51.89429, 0.55353
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Malthouse is an 18th-century malthouse located on Church Lane in Bocking. The building is timber-framed and weatherboarded on the upper storey, while the lower storey is constructed of brick. It has two storeys and is designed in an L-shaped plan, with wings extending to the south and west. The east end of the west wing features a mansard gable, and the south end of the south wing has a half-hipped roof. The roofs are tiled.

Local climate

Hill Malthouse 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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