The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. House. 1 related planning application.

The Chestnuts

WRENN ID
fallow-pedestal-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1978
Type
House
Address
The Chestnuts, Trinity Street, Halstead, CO9 1JE
OS grid reference
TL 809 305
Coordinates
51.94372, 0.63192
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chestnuts is an early 19th-century building made of plastered brick, topped with a grey slate hipped roof. It has three storeys and features a four-window range with vertical sliding sashes that include glazing bars. The building has a projecting wooden eaves cornice. The eastern half of the front showcases two late 19th-century, two-storey bay windows. There is a Doric porch with an arched window above it, and a large semi-circular bay window facing the garden. Some original detailing can still be found inside.

Local climate

The Chestnuts 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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