Foxearth House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House.
Foxearth House
- WRENN ID
- final-lintel-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Foxearth House, the Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 835 447
- Coordinates
- 52.0705, 0.67709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foxearth House is a house dating from the late 17th century to the early 18th century. It has a red brick facade and is plastered at the rear, topped with a hipped red tiled roof. The building features three 18th-century gabled dormers, each with small paned vertical sliding sash windows, and a moulded eaves cornice. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a central band.
The first floor has a range of seven vertical sliding sash windows, while the ground floor has six matching windows, with two longer windows on the left. All windows are set under segmental arches. The central entrance features a six-panelled door framed by fluted pilasters, with a frieze that includes triglyphs and guttae, topped by a pedimented doorcase. There are two red brick chimney stacks symmetrically placed on the building, and the right return wall displays some diapering, along with flared headers on the first floor.
Local climate
Foxearth House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% 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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