London House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.
London House
- WRENN ID
- old-brick-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- London House, 78, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 1AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 820 144
- Coordinates
- 51.79907, 0.63883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
London House is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered house with a red brick front and parapet. It is three storeys high and has a three-window range. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in plain reveals. The ground floor has a large, central bow shop window with glazing bars and an ornamented cornice. Two flanking doorways feature fluted pilasters and flat cornice hoods supported by paired brackets. One doorway has a six-panel door. The roof is tiled. London House forms a group with numbers 72 and 78 (even), numbers 86 to 92 (even), the Congregational Chapel, numbers 61 to 65 (odd), and numbers 83 to 91 (odd).
Local climate
London 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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