Ancillary Building 50 Metres South East of Bradwell Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. Ancillary building. 3 related planning applications.
Ancillary Building 50 Metres South East of Bradwell Hall
- WRENN ID
- gilded-brass-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- Ancillary building
- OS grid reference
- TL 817 222
- Coordinates
- 51.869, 0.63903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ancillary building located 50 meters south-east of Bradwell Hall is an early 16th-century structure that was part of the manor. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The building consists of two bays facing north-west and is two storeys tall, although it was originally part of a longer building.
An open implement shed is attached to the south-west side, and a stable is attached to the north-east side, but neither of these additions has special architectural or historic interest. The ground floor features a plain boarded door and two 20th-century metal casement windows. On the first floor, there is a plain boarded loading door and one defective window.
The building has jowled posts, heavy studding, and an axial beam with plain joists that are jointed to it using soffit tenons with diminished haunches. There is a wide arched doorhead above the current door. The roof structure includes a crownpost with heavy down-bracing to the central tiebeam and heavy arched bracing to the collar-purlin. The high quality of the frame and the wide doorhead suggest that this building was originally of manorial status, likely serving as a court hall or a granary/stable range. The boarding on the first floor is defective and has been replaced with corrugated iron.
Local climate
Ancillary Building 50 Metres South East of Bradwell Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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