Newmans is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. A Medieval House.
Newmans
- WRENN ID
- third-step-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Newmans, 5, Bridge Street, Bures Hamlet
- OS grid reference
- TL 905 340
- Coordinates
- 51.97207, 0.77246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newmans is a house dating from the late 15th century, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, though some framing is exposed on the right side. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building has an L-plan layout, featuring a three-bay main range that faces south, with an axial chimney stack located one bay from the left end, and an irregular wing extending to the rear on the right. There are single-storey extensions from the 18th or 19th century at the back of the main range. The house stands two storeys tall.
The corner bay includes a late 19th-century shopfront that is currently disused, featuring two arched shop windows with the mullions removed, doors on either side (one half-glazed and one with four panels), and a fascia supported by four scrolled brackets. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights, while the first floor has three sash windows. The roof of the crosswing is hipped.
Inside, there is a full-length underbuilt jetty, moulded beams and joists (with carved foliate stops present only in the left bay), jowled posts, and a late 16th-century framed ceiling over the first floor of the left bay, featuring an ovolo-moulded beam and chamfered joists with step stops. The crownpost roof of the crosswing is visible, with axial braces supporting the crownposts. Access to the roof of the main range is not available. The building is described by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments as The Old Toll House.
Local climate
Newmans sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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