The Corn Dolly Restaurant Walnut Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. A C17 Restaurant. 3 related planning applications.

The Corn Dolly Restaurant Walnut Tree House

WRENN ID
over-zinc-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
Restaurant
Address
The Corn Dolly Restaurant Walnut Tree House, High Street, Great Bardfield, CM7 4SP
OS grid reference
TL 675 305
Coordinates
51.94805, 0.43599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree House, now known as The Corn Dolly Restaurant, is a house that dates back to the 17th century and was altered in the 18th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and some weatherboarding on the sides, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a square plan and includes an internal stack on the right side. It stands two storeys tall with attics.

On the left side, there is a 19th-century shopfront that has two bays projecting from the house, rounded at the edges, and features central double glazed doors. To the right, there is a 20th-century glazed door with a dentilled cornice supported by scrolled brackets, along with an early 19th-century sash window with 20 lights and a cornice above it. The first floor has three 18th-century sash windows, each with 12 lights. In the attic, there are two 18th-century sash windows set in lean-to dormers. A plaster band runs along the first floor level, and there is a moulded cornice and parapet above. The rear wall has engraved brickwork that is dated 1823.

Local climate

The Corn Dolly Restaurant Walnut Tree 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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