Belle Couture is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House, shop.
Belle Couture
- WRENN ID
- solitary-trefoil-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Belle Couture, 144, High Street, Kelvedon, CO5 9JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 863 190
- Coordinates
- 51.83888, 0.70313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Belle Couture is a house that has been converted into a shop and residence. It dates from the 18th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, mostly covered in plaster, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. It features three bays facing northwest, with a central axial stack made of gault brick near the left end. The building adjoins No. 142 (The White House) at the right end.
At the rear right, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension with a slate roof, and along the rest of the rear, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension. The main structure is one storey high with attics. It includes one 19th-century splayed bay window with sashes arranged in a 2-6-2 light configuration, a 20th-century shop window, and a half-glazed door from the 20th century. There are also two late 19th-century sashes with six lights in flat-roofed dormers. The building has a gambrel roof that is half-hipped at the left end.
The left side of the building has a painted brick finish on the ground floor only. The rear elevation features a triple casement window with three semi-circular heads, along with three 19th-century casements in dormers, one of which is a lean-to while the others have segmental roofs. There is a plain boarded rear door.
Local climate
Belle Couture sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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