Dial House Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A Early 17th Century Inn.
Dial House Inn
- WRENN ID
- fallen-ashlar-frost
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Early 17th Century
- Address
- Dial House Inn, 173, Bradford Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 761 242
- Coordinates
- 51.88927, 0.55897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House Inn is an early 17th century timber-framed and plastered house, likely built in 1603, as indicated by the date carved on one of the bressumers. It features a timber-framed addition on the west end, with weatherboarding on the first storey and painted brick on the ground storey. The building has two storeys, attics, and cellars.
The south front showcases a jetty on the upper storey supported by a carved bressumer. The east side also has a jetty with a gable above, both resting on carved bressumers. The upper bressumer, which bears the date 1603, is supported by carved scroll brackets, while the lower one is on carved brackets. There is some exposed timber-framing, which is now painted, and an original mullioned window that has been blocked under the first storey jetty.
No 173 features one window range, while Dial House Inn has three window ranges, with double-hung sashes and glazing bars in flush cased frames. The outer windows on the first storey are three-light, and the ground storey has three-light bays. A central six-panel door with an architrave is topped by a late 17th century flat wooden canopy on pierced and shaped brackets. The roofs are tiled.
Local climate
Dial House Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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