Town House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage.
Town House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-granite-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Town House, Soft Road, Belchamp Walter
- OS grid reference
- TL 817 404
- Coordinates
- 52.03291, 0.64768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cottage known as Town House, dating from the late 16th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a gabled pantile roof adorned with Suffolk vergeboards. It is likely a former small open hall house. The structure consists of one storey and attics, with two gabled dormers and a central ridge line stack. There is a single storey gabled extension with a pantile roof on the west end. The windows are 20th-century casements. Inside, there is a double-sided inglenook fireplace and some soffit tennoned floor joists in the lower end.
Local climate
Town 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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