Freebournes House is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
Freebournes House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-belfry-hazel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Freebournes House, 3, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 2AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 822 146
- Coordinates
- 51.80112, 0.64211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Freebournes House is a building located at 3 Newland Street, originally constructed in the 16th century as a timber-framed and plastered house, but it was largely rebuilt in the 17th century. The house underwent renovations in the 20th century and is now faced in roughcast. It features cross wings at both the north-east and south-west ends and stands two storeys tall with a five-window range. The early 19th-century paired windows are double-hung sashes without glazing bars. The ground storey includes a modern shop window styled in early 19th-century fashion. The roof is tiled and has early 19th-century shaped bargeboards on the gables, along with an original large square brick chimney stack at the south-west end. Inside, there are some exposed beams and 17th-century panelling. Freebournes House is part of a group with the wall to the former house "The Grove" and includes Nos 2 to 12 (even), the stable to No 4, No 16 (Rosleyn House), Whitehall Cinema, and Nos 22 to 26 (even).
Local climate
Freebournes 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 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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