Rayne House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1971. House. 4 related planning applications.
Rayne House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-dormer-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rayne House, the Street, CM77 6RH
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 226
- Coordinates
- 51.87598, 0.51287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rayne House is an 18th-century house constructed of red brick, featuring red plain tiled double range roofs and red brick chimney stacks on both the right and left sides. The building has a parapet with stone coping and stands three storeys tall with cellars. It has a five-window range of vertically sliding sashes with plain reveals and gauged brick arches, although two of the small second-storey windows are blocked.
A notable feature is the fine 18th-century cast iron full-length ground floor verandah, which has a curved glass roof, an ornate cornice, alternate trellising, and open arches between the support columns. The right return includes a door with four panels and two lights, topped with tracery above. The columns are Tuscan, with plain bases and moulded capitals, and there is a moulded cornice leading to a moulded pediment with dentilled soffits. Access to the house is via a four-step approach.
Local climate
Rayne 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 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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