North House and The Picture Pot is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House.
North House and The Picture Pot
- WRENN ID
- dusk-minaret-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- North House and The Picture Pot, the Green, Finchingfield, CM7 4JS
- OS grid reference
- TL 684 327
- Coordinates
- 51.96785, 0.45045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North House and The Picture Pot is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with plastered walls and a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has five bays facing northwest and includes an axial stack in the second bay from the right, along with a rear wing on the right side. It stands two storeys tall.
On the ground floor, there is an early 20th-century double shop window with a central half-glazed door, one early 19th-century sash window with six lights, and one 20th-century casement window. The first floor has three similar sash windows and one reproduction sash. The entrance features a four-panel flush door topped with a shallow hood. Additionally, there is a copper Royal firemark located below the eaves. The building is listed for its group value context.
Local climate
North House and The Picture Pot sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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