53 and 55, Newland Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. A Georgian House. 3 related planning applications.
53 and 55, Newland Street
- WRENN ID
- little-jamb-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 53 and 55, Newland Street, Witham, CM8 2BD
- OS grid reference
- TL 821 144
- Coordinates
- 51.79932, 0.63989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
53 and 55 Newland Street is a red brick house from the 18th century, featuring a parapet and a raised brick band. The building has three storeys and cellars, with a six-window range on the north-west front and a five-window range on the south-east garden front. The windows are double-hung sashes with single vertical glazing bars set in plain reveals. Number 55 includes a flat three-light bow window with glazing bars on the ground floor, while number 53 has a 20th-century shop window. There are two wooden doorcases with rectangular fanlights; number 53 has reeded pilasters and a cornice, and number 55 features a six-panel door with glazed upper panels, architraves, and a pediment. The roofs are tiled and hipped at the northern end. This building is part of a group that includes the Spread Eagle Hotel at number 47 and numbers 53 to 57, along with numbers 56, 58A, 58, and 60 to 66.
Local climate
53 and 55, Newland Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- 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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