Lower Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Lower Hall
- WRENN ID
- dusk-roof-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Hall, Braintree Road, Great Bardfield, CM7 4RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 678 303
- Coordinates
- 51.94648, 0.44114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Hall is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with alterations made in the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The building has two bays facing west and features a 17th-century external stack at the right end, along with a 17th or 18th-century extension at the rear of the left end. The house is two storeys high and has a two-window range of 20th-century casements, as well as a 20th-century door with a bracketed gabled canopy. The roof is half-hipped at the right and rear.
Inside, the structure showcases exposed close studding with curved braces that are trenched to the inside, chamfered beams with step stops, and exposed plain joists of horizontal section. The roof features clasped purlins, and the right bay has been modified to create a central stairway.
Local climate
Lower Hall 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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