Upper Yeldham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Manor house.
Upper Yeldham Hall
- WRENN ID
- eastward-solder-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Upper Yeldham Hall, North End Road, Little Yeldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 781 387
- Coordinates
- 52.01887, 0.59552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Yeldham Hall is a manor house dating from the late 16th century and early 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building is timber framed, partially covered in Flemish bond brickwork featuring red stretchers and blue headers, some areas are finished with 20th-century bricks in stretcher bond, and other parts are plastered. The roof is made of handmade red clay tiles.
The structure includes a three-bay crosswing, built in the late 16th century and oriented approximately north-south, which has two axial chimney stacks. This crosswing is part of a hall house, of which the remainder has been demolished. To the east is an early 17th-century range, likely on the site of the original hall, facing north and featuring an internal chimney stack at the rear, creating an H-plan layout. There is a 17th-century stair tower at the southeast corner, topped with a lean-to roof.
To the northeast, there is a large ancillary building from the 19th century. A single-storey extension to the south of the main range has a lean-to roof made of interlocking concrete tiles, along with a canopy supported by three brick piers, also with a similar roof, dating from the 20th century.
The hall is two storeys tall with an attic. The entrance features a 20th-century door with a gabled hood supported by scrolled brackets. The windows include one 20th-century casement, one 17th-century casement, and one 20th-century double-hung sash window on the ground floor, while the first floor has two 17th-century casement windows and one 20th-century double-hung sash window. There is also a 20th-century casement window in a gabled dormer.
The west crosswing displays grouped diagonal shafts on one stack and an octagonal shaft on the other. Original features include windows with ovolo mullions in the west crosswing and stop-chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops.
Local climate
Upper Yeldham Hall 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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