Byham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Byham Hall
- WRENN ID
- young-pediment-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Byham Hall, Gestingthorpe Road, Great Maplestead, CO9 3AR
- OS grid reference
- TL 819 355
- Coordinates
- 51.98885, 0.64792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Byham Hall is a house that dates back to the 15th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with plaster and is faced with red brick, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The building has a half H plan and a hipped roof on the front elevation. It stands two storeys tall and has a three-window range of small paned vertical sliding sashes on the first floor, while the ground floor has a two-window range of three-light vertical sliding sashes. The central entrance consists of a two-panel door with four lights and a moulded surround, accompanied by a 20th-century red tiled gabled porch. Inside, there are exposed beams, including arched braces to the main tie beams in both crosswings, which were originally constructed with crown posts. The original timbers show heavy soot marks. The main block features cambered collar beams, and there is a dado of 16th-century panelling in the ground floor room.
Local climate
Byham 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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- 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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