20 and 22, Station Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1982. House. 1 related planning application.

20 and 22, Station Hill

WRENN ID
long-gable-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1982
Type
House
Address
20 and 22, Station Hill, Bures Hamlet, CO8 5DD
OS grid reference
TL 903 339
Coordinates
51.97183, 0.77018
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 20 and 22 Station Hill is a house located in Bures Hamlet that dates back to the late medieval period, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. It features four bays facing southwest, an 18th-century chimney stack at the left end, and an early 17th-century axial stack near the right end, which creates a lobby entrance. There is a short 18th-century extension on the right and a wing at the front of the left end added in 1982, along with a lean-to extension at the rear. The house is two stories tall and has a four-window range of 20th-century sashes, plus one additional sash on the first floor of the front wing. The entrance includes a door beneath a 20th-century gabled porch.

Inside, the building has jowled posts and exposed heavy studding, with cranked braces supporting two tiebeams on the left. The joists in front of the main stack are horizontally sectioned, stop-chamfered with step stops, and arranged longitudinally, while other joists have been much repaired and renewed. There is an unglazed window in the upper rear wall featuring three diamond mullions. The main hearth retains original brickwork measuring 0.33 meters on the sides, though the back has been renewed, and the mantel has also been replaced. The crownpost roof is incomplete.

Local climate

20 and 22, Station Hill 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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