Benton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.
Benton Hall
- WRENN ID
- noble-basalt-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Benton Hall, Witham, CM8 3LH
- OS grid reference
- TL 828 132
- Coordinates
- 51.78838, 0.6498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Benton Hall is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered building that was altered in the 18th century. It has two storeys and features a three-window range with three-light windows, double-hung sashes with glazing bars set in cased frames. The roof is tiled and includes two 17th-century chimney stacks with octagonal shafts. Gabled wings project from the rear of the building.
Local climate
Benton 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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 — 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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