Star Stile House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1980. House.

Star Stile House

WRENN ID
pitched-chancel-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1980
Type
House
Address
Star Stile House, Sudbury Road, Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural
OS grid reference
TL 824 316
Coordinates
51.95386, 0.65307
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Star Stile House is an early 19th-century house constructed from gault brick in Flemish bond and topped with a slate roof. The main section faces south and features two end stacks and a central stack. There are two rear wings that create a rectangular plan, along with an additional wing extending to the rear right. The house has two storeys, and the central part of the south elevation protrudes forward, highlighted by a prominent pediment gable.

On the ground floor, there are four large sash windows with 12 lights, each featuring flat arches made of gauged brick. The first floor has four smaller sash windows with crown glass, along with a central sash window that includes marginal lights and diagonal glazing bars at the corners. The entrance features central glazed double doors with marginal lights and a rectangular overlight adorned with geometrical tracery, all set within a 20th-century porch made of gault brick with piers and a flat roof. The low-pitched roof has long overhanging eaves.

The left (west) elevation includes one ground floor sash window similar to the central sash on the south elevation, two first floor sashes, and a blind aperture on each floor. There is also an original glazed door with marginal lights and an overlight, located in an original porch made of rendered brick, which features Doric pilasters, a blocking course, dentilled eaves, and a flat roof, along with 20th-century outer glazed doors.

Local climate

Star Stile House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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