Whitehall Cinema is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. Cinema. 6 related planning applications.
Whitehall Cinema
- WRENN ID
- sacred-panel-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- Cinema
- Address
- Whitehall Cinema, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 2AQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 822 146
- Coordinates
- 51.80113, 0.6415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whitehall Cinema began as a good brick house built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was later converted into a cinema in the 20th century and is now disused. The main front block retains original features above the cinema entrance at ground floor level. The front is now painted brick and features a parapet, a stucco cornice, and pilasters that extend through the two upper stories, framing the window ranges. There are five windows across the front, with double-hung sashes containing glazing bars in plain reveals. A two-story addition with two windows is located at the northeast end, and includes a 20th-century cafe on the ground floor. It is said that two original Venetian windows are concealed behind the cinema signage at ground floor level. The building is part of a wider group including numbers 2 to 12 (even), the stable to number 4, number 16 (Roslyn Home), the cinema itself, numbers 22 to 26 (even), a wall relating to the former house "The Grove", and number 3.
Local climate
Whitehall Cinema 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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