1, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House.

1, High Street

WRENN ID
stark-stair-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 April 1987
Type
House
Address
1, High Street, Earls Colne
OS grid reference
TL 855 289
Coordinates
51.92823, 0.69766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This house, located at 1 High Street, dates from around 1610 and features a timber frame that is plastered and weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. It has three bays and a chimney-bay facing south, although the original entrance has been blocked. There is an 18th-century external stack at the left end of the building, along with 19th and 20th-century rear extensions. The front has a three-window range of early 20th-century leaded casements, which includes two splayed bays topped with hipped roofs made of red tiles. A 19th-century gabled porch with bargeboards and pendants also has a red plain tile roof. The main frame of the house features stop-chamfered spine beams. Some original doors are still in place, complete with cockshead hinges. Historical records show that the house was divided into tenements by 1618 and remained that way for two centuries before being re-combined in 1852.

Local climate

1, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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