Branch Library is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. A C19 Library. 5 related planning applications.
Branch Library
- WRENN ID
- young-keystone-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1978
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Branch Library, Bridge Street, Halstead, CO9 1HU
- OS grid reference
- TL 811 305
- Coordinates
- 51.94359, 0.63412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Branch Library, formerly a Technical School, was built in 1865. It is constructed of grey gault brick with red brick dressings and features a grey slate roof with boxed eaves and verges. This single-storey building has a side wall that includes seven recessed panels for windows, each with semi-circular heads, prominent keystones, and archivolts. There is a moulded brick eaves course along the top. The front of the building has a recessed panel with a semi-circular head that encloses a circular plaque. An entrance porch is located on the north side.
Local climate
Branch Library 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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