Munt House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House, former farmhouse.
Munt House
- WRENN ID
- burning-transept-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House, former farmhouse
- Address
- Munt House, Hall Road, Belchamp Walter
- OS grid reference
- TL 827 407
- Coordinates
- 52.03546, 0.6624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Munt House, formerly known as Munt Farmhouse, is a house that was originally a farmhouse, built in the early 18th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with the timber frame exposed on the upper floor of the front. The building has two storeys and attics, topped with a peg tile roof that is gabled to the north and hipped to the south, extending to a rear wing. There is one gabled dormer on the front roof slope. The house includes a north gable end stack, a ridge line stack, and a small stack over the rear wing.
The front of the house has 19th-century mullioned and transomed casements with small panes, along with a central hipped peg tile open porch supported by turned Doric columns and featuring a miniature triglyphed frieze. The early 19th-century door surround is adorned with reeded pilasters and a frieze, with the design continuing into the capitals, and it includes a six-panel door. A painted timber plaque on the wall displays the date 1777. Inside, there are two inglenook stacks, several 17th and 18th-century doors, and heavy softwood spine beams. The floors are made of large and small brick paviors. Munt House is noted as a late example of a large timber-framed house.
Local climate
Munt 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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