Paul's Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A C16 House.

Paul's Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
House
Address
Paul's Hall, Church Street, Belchamp St. Paul
OS grid reference
TL 797 434
Coordinates
52.0604, 0.62068
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Paul's Hall is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with additions and alterations from the 17th century and later. The rear wing is a remnant of the original red brick house, featuring a parapet verge, chamfered brick windows, and an octagonal red brick chimney stack on the rear wall. It also includes a catslide roofed stair turret and a gabled dormer to the left, with a plastered return. The front range is timber framed and plastered, topped with a hipped roof covered in red plain tiles. The house has two storeys and attics, with a three-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. There is a central open gabled porch with a 20th-century partially glazed door and red brick chimney stacks on both sides. This house was the home of Arthur Golding, known for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and other classics, which were widely used by Shakespeare in his works.

Local climate

Paul's Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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