Queens Beeches is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Queens Beeches
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-portal-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Queens Beeches, Rectory Road, Middleton, CO10 7LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 396
- Coordinates
- 52.02338, 0.72575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queens Beeches is an early 19th-century house constructed primarily of grey gault brick with a grey slate hipped roof. The building is two and three storeys high, and includes cellars. It has an L-shaped plan. The north front features a four-window arrangement of 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars. The east front has an original flat-roofed porch constructed of grey gault brick. There are two flat-roofed bay windows on the west side, along with an oriel bay window. The south wing incorporates what were originally stables and a carriage house.
Local climate
Queens Beeches 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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