Barr Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Barr Hall
- WRENN ID
- ghost-bracket-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barr Hall, Toppesfield Road, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3LR
- OS grid reference
- TL 742 351
- Coordinates
- 51.98781, 0.53626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barr Hall is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber framed and plastered, with a hipped roof covered in red tiles. The building has external red brick chimney stacks on both the left and right sides. It is two storeys high, with a small single-storey extension to the right. The facade has a three-window range of small-paned vertically sliding sash windows. A central open gabled porch features a 20th-century glazed door. To the right return is an open pediment doorcase with dentilled soffits.
Local climate
Barr Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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