The Old Moot House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Licensed restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Moot House
- WRENN ID
- fading-nave-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Licensed restaurant
- Address
- The Old Moot House, 1, St James Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3EJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 355
- Coordinates
- 51.9898, 0.59866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Moot House is a licensed restaurant located on St. James Street in Castle Hedingham. It dates back to the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. The building features mainly exposed timber framing with plaster infill, jowled storey posts, heavy studding, and halved braces on the right side. A bressumer with a carved leaf motif is present, and the ground floor has a plastered brick facing. The roof is hipped and covered with red tiles, with gabled crosswings on both the right and left sides. There are red brick chimney stacks on either end of the building.
The structure has two storeys, with a five-window range on the first floor, primarily consisting of 19th-century two-light vertically sliding sash windows, along with a three-light small paned casement window on the left crosswing. The ground floor features a six-window range of mainly vari-light casements and vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars. A central vertically boarded door is set in a plain surround. It is noted that the rear of this building may be interlinked with 2 and 4 King Street.
Local climate
The Old Moot 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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