Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 4 related planning applications.

Bridge House

WRENN ID
kindled-pediment-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House
Address
Bridge House, the Green, Finchingfield, CM7 4JS
OS grid reference
TL 684 328
Coordinates
51.96816, 0.45124
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge House is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has three bays facing north, with a central stack that creates a lobby entrance. To the left, there is a single-storey wing, and to the right, an external stack with a wing that has one storey and an attic above. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to extension. The house is two storeys high with attics.

On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows and one 19th-century fixed window with 16 lights. The first floor has three 20th-century casements and two additional casements in feature gables. The entrance features a 20th-century door with a gabled hood. The external stack has four octagonal shafts that have been rebuilt at the top.

Inside, the building has chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists that are horizontally sectioned. There are three hearths with depressed brick arches, which were originally plastered but have now been stripped; the lower left hearth has been extensively repaired. The interior also includes jowled posts and a clasped purlin roof. Two original oak panelled and studded doors have been re-sited, with one having been cut down.

Local climate

Bridge House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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