Number 119 and Railings to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.

Number 119 and Railings to Front

WRENN ID
inner-window-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1974
Type
House
Address
Number 119 and Railings to Front, High Street, Kelvedon, CO5 9AA
OS grid reference
TL 861 188
Coordinates
51.83751, 0.70106
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

House. Dating from the 17th century, it was altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is timber-framed, with plaster and roughcast rendering on parts of the exterior, and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It has three bays facing southeast, with a central chimney stack forming a lobby-entrance. A red brick wing is at the left end of the rear, and a 19th-century lean-to extension is located to the right of it. A parallel range was added in the late 19th century at the rear right, extending to the right and roofed with slate, with a small 20th-century lean-to extension at the rear. The house has two storeys, a cellar, and an attic. On the ground floor, there are two 3-light casement windows with coloured glass margins and shallow canopies supported by scrolled brackets, dating from around 1900. The first floor has two similar casement windows, with a further window on the rear right range, and a central 2-light casement with a canopy. The central entrance has a 5-panel door, the top panel glazed, within an early 19th-century doorcase with an enriched frieze and a moulded flat canopy on scrolled brackets, forming a flat-roofed porch with glazed sides. A moulded cornice sits above, topped by a plain parapet. Mid-19th-century cast iron railings, with a design of linked loops inspired by French Renaissance motifs, form the boundary with the street, returning to the house at each end. An 18th-century 2-light window with a wrought iron casement and a twisted stay bar is found in the right attic gable of the main range. A half-glazed door with coloured glass margins is situated in the right projection of the rear range. Within a ground-floor room on the right, there is a chamfered axial beam and some exposed studding. Elsewhere, the timber frame is mainly concealed. Two 17th-century moulded 3-plank doors are present in the attic. The building was formerly known as Cockdrovers.

Local climate

Number 119 and Railings to Front 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 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
  • 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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