St Michael's Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. Hospital. 6 related planning applications.
St Michael's Hospital
- WRENN ID
- empty-pediment-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- St Michael's Hospital, Rayne Road, CM7 2QU
- OS grid reference
- TL 751 231
- Coordinates
- 51.8793, 0.54273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Michael's Hospital, formerly the old workhouse, was built in 1837. It is a red brick building with 20th-century wings on the east and west ends. The building has three storeys and a five-window range, with the central part slightly projecting forward. The windows feature double-hung sashes with glazing bars set in plain reveals, while the outer windows on the ground storey have casements. The ground and first storey windows have semi-circular brick arched heads, and the ground storey along with the central three windows on the first storey have keystones. A central doorway is topped by a semi-circular fanlight with ornamental glazing bars and is framed by a wooden doorcase with plain columns and a dentilled cornice. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.
Local climate
St Michael's Hospital 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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