7-17, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. Almshouses.
7-17, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- mired-floor-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- Almshouses
- OS grid reference
- TL 757 255
- Coordinates
- 51.90107, 0.55342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 7 to 17 on Church Street are a range of 19th-century red brick almshouses. They are single-storey buildings with a total of 12 windows featuring mullioned and transomed metal casements that have leaded lattice lights. The windows are set in plain reveals with 'Tudor' arched heads. A plaque on the west end indicates that the almshouses were originally built around 1400 and were rebuilt in 1869. The ends of the buildings are gabled and feature barge boards that are intricately carved with roses, horse heads, and pelicans. The roofs are tiled and have diagonally set chimney stacks topped with brick dentilled caps and moulded brick bases. Additionally, there is a serrated brick eaves course.
Local climate
7-17, Church Street 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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