Howe Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. House.

Howe Hall

WRENN ID
other-frieze-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1984
Type
House
Address
Howe Hall, Howe Street, Finchingfield
OS grid reference
TL 691 337
Coordinates
51.97663, 0.46094
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Howe Hall is a house dating from the 16th century and later. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with red clay tiles. The building has a complex plan that includes a 16th-century east-west range with a stack and a wing to the south at the eastern end, along with two 18th-century wings to the north, creating an approximate square shape. There is an external stack and a single-storey extension from the 19th century to the east. The house is two storeys high.

On the west elevation facing the road, there are two late 19th-century splayed bays with sash windows featuring 2-4-2 lights, and on the first floor, there are two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights. The entrance is located to the south, featuring a 20th-century glazed door set in a flat-roofed porch. The eastern elevation displays some early zigzag pargetting.

Inside, the property features chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. The joists in the original middle part of the house are of horizontal section, while in other areas they are of vertical section. The posts are jowled. The roof of the original part has been rebuilt at a higher level, leaving one original gable intact, which includes a collar for clasped purlins and wattle and daub construction.

Local climate

Howe Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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