Turners House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
Turners House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-kitchen-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Turners House, North Road, Great Yeldham, C09 4QD
- OS grid reference
- TL 760 385
- Coordinates
- 52.0174, 0.56433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turners House is a 15th-century building that has been altered in the 16th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with a plaster exterior and a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has a two-bay hall that runs approximately north to south, with an integral parlour or solar bay to the south and a missing service bay. The main aspect is to the west.
There is a late 16th-century chimney stack in the rear wall of the south bay of the hall and an 18th or 19th-century chimney stack at the south end. A single-storey lean-to extension with an internal chimney stack is located at the north end and dates from the 20th century. The house is single-storey with attics and features a 20th-century door in a tiled gabled porch. There are two 20th-century casement windows, one 17th-century wrought iron casement window, and one late 16th-century fixed window with two ovolo mullions, all with diamond leading. Additionally, there is one gabled dormer with two 17th-century wrought iron casements.
Inside, the house has jowled posts, exposed studding with display bracing at the south end of the hall, and a late 16th-century inserted floor that includes a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section. There are deep arch braces to the central tiebeam of the hall, which has been severed for a doorway. The crownpost roof features one square crownpost with four-way bracing and is smoke blackened. The ground floor hearth has been partly rebuilt, while the first-floor hearth retains its original depressed brick arch.
Local climate
Turners House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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