Retaining Wall of Ha Ha Along the Boundary Between the Garden of Holfield Grange and the Public Road to the South West is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall of Ha Ha Along the Boundary Between the Garden of Holfield Grange and the Public Road to the South West
- WRENN ID
- wild-pier-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Retaining wall
- OS grid reference
- TL 830 232
- Coordinates
- 51.87773, 0.65822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall of the ha-ha is an 18th-century structure made of red brick in Flemish bond. It runs from the south corner of the garden of Holfield Grange in a north-westerly direction for approximately 150 metres, where it connects to a plain brick wall. The wall features 30 concave bays with small buttresses at the junctions and has a visible height of 0.90 metres above the bottom of the dry ditch. It is topped with brick on edge coping. This wall is associated with an earlier house on the same site as the current Holfield Grange, which was illustrated by J. June in "Excursions through Essex" in 1818, referred to as Oldfield Grange in the Essex Record Office.
Local climate
Retaining Wall of Ha Ha Along the Boundary Between the Garden of Holfield Grange and the Public Road to the South West sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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