Former Plough Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Public house.
Former Plough Public House
- WRENN ID
- nether-bronze-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Former Plough Public House, Bulmer
- OS grid reference
- TL 846 387
- Coordinates
- 52.01624, 0.68907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Plough Public House is a pair of cottages that date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a gabled roof covered with peg tiles. It stands two storeys tall, with a single-storey extension at the south end that has a slate roof. The building has a tall ridge line stack off centre, along with similar stacks at each gable end. The front of the building includes four double-hung sash windows with small panes and moulded architraves, positioned above four similar windows and two simple entrance doors. At the rear of the south end, there is a two-storey extension.
Local climate
Former Plough Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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