Potter's Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Potter's Hall
- WRENN ID
- second-passage-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Potter's Hall, Toppesfield Road, Great Yeldham, CO9 4HE
- OS grid reference
- TL 757 377
- Coordinates
- 52.01036, 0.55903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potter’s Hall is a house, dating to the early 17th century or earlier, with extensions added in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with roofs of handmade red clay tiles and slate. The original design comprised a two-bay wing aligned northwest-southeast, now used as a garage with a bedroom above, likely dating to the early 17th century or even earlier. An 18th-century extension was built to the northeast, featuring one axial chimney stack and an external stack at the northeast gable end. A single-storey lean-to extension is attached to the southeast. The house is single-storey with attics, and two storeys in height. The southeast elevation includes a metal garage door, two 20th-century casement windows, and a glazed conservatory topped with a lean-to roof of handmade red clay tiles. Four 20th-century casement windows are on the first floor. Inside the southwest wing, there is heavy studding with arched bracing turned inward, a chamfered beam with lamb's stops and plain horizontal joists. The northeast wing displays a main frame of pegged construction, with lighter studding.
Local climate
Potter's 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 5 transactions since 2001
- 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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