Coombe Hay is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House.
Coombe Hay
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-oriel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Coombe Hay, 7, Foundry Lane, Earls Colne
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 288
- Coordinates
- 51.92706, 0.69774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coombe Hay is a house dating from around 1600. It has a timber frame that is plastered and weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The building consists of three bays with a central stack, designed in a symmetrical lobby-entrance plan facing west, and includes a rear stair tower. It is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century bow windows, while the first floor features three 20th-century casement windows. The entrance has a half-glazed door set within a 20th-century porch. Notable architectural details include jowled posts and stop-chamfered beams. The roof is a clasped purlin type with intermediate collars, and the wallplates have edge-halved and bridled scarfs. The original fireplaces are still present, complete with mantel beams.
Local climate
Coombe Hay sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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