The Old Bakehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Bakehouse

WRENN ID
spare-garret-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1986
Type
House
Address
The Old Bakehouse, Corner of North Road and Hall Road, Belchamp Walter, CO10 7AR
OS grid reference
TL 819 405
Coordinates
52.03362, 0.65089
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Bakehouse is a house that was once a bakery and shop, dating from the early 18th century. It has a timber frame with plaster and features 20th-century pargetting, topped with a peg tile roof. The building has a gable at the northwest end and is half hipped with a large gablet at the southeast end. It stands two storeys tall, with an off-centre ridge line stack and a smaller stack located behind the ridge near the southeast end.

The front of the building has four early 19th-century double-hung sash windows on the first floor, each featuring a single vertical glazing bar and moulded architraves. The ground floor also has four similar but deeper windows and an off-centre 20th-century open porch with a flat roof. Behind the porch is an early 19th-century door surround that includes a continuous moulded architrave and a superimposed frieze with triglyphs of two different patterns. On either side of the door are half columns that resemble the Doric style, which are remnants of an earlier porch. At the rear of the property, there is a single-storey wing that contains a bakehouse oven.

Local climate

The Old Bakehouse 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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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