Outhouse 10 Metres East of Old Post Office Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. A Medieval House.

Outhouse 10 Metres East of Old Post Office Cottages

WRENN ID
fading-cloister-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Period
Medieval
OS grid reference
TL 761 380
Coordinates
52.01329, 0.56568
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is an outhouse located 10 metres east of Old Post Office Cottages, dating from around 1500. It has been repurposed as a woodshed and coalshed. The structure is timber framed, with parts weatherboarded and others clad in red brick laid in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with red clay corrugated tiles. It features a two-bay hall oriented northwest to southeast, with a service bay to the southeast. In the 17th century, it was extended to the southeast by one short bay. The building is a single storey high.

On the southwest elevation, there are three boarded doors and one small 20th-century casement window. Gablets are present at both ends of the roof. Inside, the building has jowled posts and a complete crownpost roof from the original construction, featuring curved axial braces. There is no inserted floor or chimney stack, except for one serving a free-standing boiler near the southwest wall. The original roof is smoke-blackened. This outhouse was originally part of a 'Unit System' with Old Post Office Cottages, and due to its smaller size and intermittent occupation, it was never fitted with a brick chimney stack, which was common in the late 16th century.

Local climate

Outhouse 10 Metres East of Old Post Office Cottages 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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