The Institute and Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. Museum. 1 related planning application.
The Institute and Museum
- WRENN ID
- swift-spindle-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- The Institute and Museum, Bocking End
- OS grid reference
- TL 756 232
- Coordinates
- 51.88052, 0.55103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Institute and Museum is a mid to late 19th century building made of buff coloured gault brick. It stands two storeys high and features a five-window range with tall casement windows. The first-storey windows are adorned with stone architraves and a cornice at the impost level. Between the windows, there are pilasters on the piers. A stone cornice runs between the two storeys. The ground storey includes two windows set in recessed brick panels, which have segmental gauged brick arches and keystones. In the centre, there is a six-panel double door with a plain fanlight that has a segmental head, along with a stone architrave featuring a keystone. The building is raised above a moulded stone plinth. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, featuring a modillioned eaves cornice.
Local climate
The Institute and Museum 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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