Brimpton House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.

Brimpton House

WRENN ID
guardian-mantel-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1974
Type
House
Address
Brimpton House, 59, High Street, Kelvedon, CO5 9AE
OS grid reference
TL 860 186
Coordinates
51.83535, 0.69846
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brimpton House is an early 19th-century house, originally used as a dwelling and later converted into a surgery. It has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of gault brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof. It follows a double-pile plan, facing southeast, and contains four internal stacks. A substantial extension matching the original style was built to the rear left, incorporating one internal stack, alongside a single-storey ancillary building to the rear right.

The two-storey front facade has a three-window arrangement of sashes, each with 20 lights, including marginal lights, set within shallow segmental arches of gauged brick. The windows contain crown glass. A central door has six panels, a plain overlight, and a plaster doorcase featuring pilasters with moulded bases and caps, a frieze, a moulded flat canopy, and panelled jambs and soffit. The central part of the front elevation projects forward. Corner pilasters are giant in scale. The roof is low-pitched with a long overhang at the eaves, with sheet metal on all ridges.

The garden elevation to the southwest has similarly styled windows. The right return has a single original sash window with 20 lights on the ground floor. A low dwarf brick wall runs along the street boundary, supported by six brick piers connected to the house by short spur walls at each end.

Local climate

Brimpton House 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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