Communal Bakehouse Adjacent to Right of 18 Park Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Bakehouse.
Communal Bakehouse Adjacent to Right of 18 Park Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tangled-truss-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Bakehouse
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 295
- Coordinates
- 51.9363, 0.593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The communal bakehouse, built around 1875 for Samuel Courtauld, is located adjacent to the right of 18 Park Cottages. It is constructed of red brick with some gault brick dressings. The building is square in shape and features a hipped red tiled roof, which is topped with three rows of scalloped louvres and shingle tiles at the apex. A central external chimney stack is adorned with stone and gault dressings. On either side of the bakehouse, there are iron casement windows with ornate glazing bars, and a vertically boarded door is located at the rear. This bakehouse was part of the village complex designed to serve the local cottages and is a rare example of an estate-style building.
Local climate
Communal Bakehouse Adjacent to Right of 18 Park Cottages 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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