Medley House Pennels and Attached Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House.

Medley House Pennels and Attached Forecourt Railings

WRENN ID
keen-beam-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Medley House Pennels and Attached Forecourt Railings, the Street, Rayne
OS grid reference
TL 728 226
Coordinates
51.87557, 0.50977
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Medley House, dating from the 18th century, is now divided into two dwellings. The building features a timber frame with plaster and is topped with a grey slate roof. It has two rear chimney stacks and stands two storeys high. The façade includes a three-window range of vertically sliding sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded surrounds. A central door with glazed margins is topped by a moulded flat canopy that has pendants on the soffit and arches that support the columns. Additionally, there are attached hooped cast iron railings that enclose a small forecourt.

Local climate

Medley House Pennels and Attached Forecourt Railings 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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