14, Bridge Street is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1994. A Medieval House.
14, Bridge Street
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1994
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- 14, Bridge Street, Writtle
- OS grid reference
- TL 680 062
- Coordinates
- 51.73, 0.43131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 14 Bridge Street is a house dating from around 1400, featuring a two-bay cross-wing that was part of a former single-ended hall-house. The structure is built of timber frame and plaster, topped with a steeply pitched plain tile roof. The south facade is gabled and has one range of windows, which are small-paned casements from the 20th century. On the ground floor, there is a window in a projecting bay and a boarded door situated beneath a shallow overhang from the first floor. At the rear, there is a late 20th-century one-storey extension constructed with matching materials.
Inside, the building retains a substantial timber frame, including first-floor joists that are centre-tenoned, with a former jetty exposed internally, where one jetty bracket remains. The central truss features arched braces to the tie-beam, along with a substantial square crown post that has in-line curved braces. The roof space still contains rafters from the former hipped roof and gablet, with supports for the bonnet to the gablet remaining in place.
Local climate
14, Bridge Street 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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