28-40, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
28-40, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- blind-pewter-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 28-40, Church Street, Witham, CM8 2JL
- OS grid reference
- TL 817 153
- Coordinates
- 51.80747, 0.63536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 28 to 40 on Church Street are a range of seven timber-framed and plastered houses built by James Beadle in 1714. An oval plaster panel on the front displays the date 1714 along with the initials T W S N, and previously included ER and WS, which have since worn away. The houses are two storeys high with attics and feature an eight-window range with casements that have glazing bars. The roofs are tiled and include four gabled dormers, mostly fitted with lattice leaded lights. The building underwent reconditioning in the 20th century. Originally, these houses served as a workhouse. Nos 22 to 40 form a group, which also includes Nos 42 to 48, Nos 1 and 3, No 7 (Woolpack Inn), No 18 and Smithy, and Nos 20 to 30, along with the Parish Church of St Nicholas and the Vicarage at Chippinghill.
Local climate
28-40, Church Street 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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