Willetts is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House.
Willetts
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-barrel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willetts, the Causeway, Finchingfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 685 329
- Coordinates
- 51.96968, 0.45178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willetts is an 18th-century house that has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has three bays facing northwest and features an axial stack located one bay from the right end. There is a single-storey extension at the rear of the left end. The building is one storey with attics and has two 20th-century casement windows, along with three additional casements in gabled dormers. Willetts is listed for its group value context.
Local climate
Willetts sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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