190-210, Church Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. Former workhouse. 2 related planning applications.
190-210, Church Lane
- WRENN ID
- broken-crypt-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- Former workhouse
- Address
- 190-210, Church Lane, CM7 5SQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 757 254
- Coordinates
- 51.89954, 0.55338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th- to early 19th-century timber-framed and plastered building, originally Bocking Workhouse. It is two storeys high with attics. The cross wing at the north end has casement windows and some horizontal sliding sash windows on the north-east front. The north-west end of the cross wing has a single window range with double-hung sashes and glazing bars. The main block, facing north-west, has a four-window range with early 19th-century metal casements and glazing bars. The ground-floor windows are in pairs, featuring Gothic arched heads. The roofs are tiled and steeply pitched, with a mansard roof on the cross wing.
Local climate
190-210, Church Lane 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 24 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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