Horseshoes is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. House.

Horseshoes

WRENN ID
outer-rood-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Horseshoes, Braintree Road, Shalford
OS grid reference
TL 721 293
Coordinates
51.93565, 0.50243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Horseshoes is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays facing southwest, featuring an axial stack located one bay from the left end and a 20th-century external stack at the right end. There is a two-storey extension from the 19th century behind the left end, along with a single-storey extension beyond it, both covered with slate roofs. Additionally, there is a 20th-century single-storey lean-to extension in the rear angle. The building stands at two storeys. On the ground floor, there is one early 19th-century sash window with 20 lights, one similar 20th-century sash, one late 19th-century sash with 16 lights, and one 20th-century casement window. The first floor features three late 19th-century sashes, each with 16 lights, and there is a 20th-century door. A tunnel has been cut through the axial stack during a 19th-century alteration to create a through entrance hall; the larger hearth to the right is blocked and plastered over. The wallplates show face-halved and bladed scarfs. The interior is mainly plastered.

Local climate

Horseshoes 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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