Resting Seat House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House. 3 related planning applications.
Resting Seat House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-arch-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Resting Seat House, 125, Church Lane, CM7 5SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 757 248
- Coordinates
- 51.89443, 0.55345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Resting Seat House is a timber-framed house, likely built in the 17th to 18th century, but it has been largely altered in the 20th century. The east front features a brick ground floor and is now covered with pebble dash on the first floor. The house has two storeys and a four-window range with 20th-century casements. At the south end, there is a timber-framed and plastered wing that extends to the west, which includes some double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The roof is tiled and dates from the 20th century.
Local climate
Resting Seat House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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