Rippingales is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House.
Rippingales
- WRENN ID
- outer-trefoil-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rippingales, North Road, Belchamp Walter
- OS grid reference
- TL 818 409
- Coordinates
- 52.03729, 0.64975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rippingales is a house located in Belchamp Walter, dating from the 17th century and earlier. It features a timber frame with plaster and gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The building has two storeys and includes an off-centre concertina stack and a 20th-century open-sided gabled porch at the front. The façade displays two jettied gables with carved tie beams resting on shaped and carved brackets. The windows are 19th-century casements, and the front and end gables are clad in black weatherboarding. Although it is a typical baffle entry house, the lower top plate indicates that it is based on an earlier structure, which was largely rebuilt around 1630. Inside, the spine beams are stop-chamfered, and those in the parlour are supported by shaped brackets. This room also contains an early 19th-century corner cupboard.
Local climate
Rippingales 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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