Foxearth Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A Medieval House.
Foxearth Hall
- WRENN ID
- winter-rood-ash
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Foxearth Hall, the Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 832 449
- Coordinates
- 52.07254, 0.67266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foxearth Hall is a house that dates back to the late 13th century, with a late 15th to early 16th century right crosswing and a 19th century left crosswing. The structure is timber framed and has panel pargetting, featuring jettied crosswings on both the right and left sides. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and there are three red brick chimney stacks with moulded octagonal shafts, arranged from left to right as 3, 2, and 4. The building has two storeys, with a window arrangement of 1:4:1 on the first floor and 1:3:1 on the ground floor, showcasing vari-light leaded casements, including one original 17th century window. To the right, there is a lean-to greenhouse, and a central 20th century gabled and plastered porch leads to a plank and muntin door. Inside, the hall features an entire open structure with a four-arm crownpost roof, two arms down braced, and the timbers are heavily sooted. The original floored service end has a hipped roof that now oversails. The right crosswing includes a stop-chamfered two-arm crown post, and the first floor bridging joist is moulded with foliate stops. Original service doors remain in the original partition. The hall is situated on a moated site.
Local climate
Foxearth Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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