Hop Kiln and Office and Store at No 7 is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1978. Hop-kiln. 4 related planning applications.
Hop Kiln and Office and Store at No 7
- WRENN ID
- winter-hinge-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1978
- Type
- Hop-kiln
- Address
- Hop Kiln and Office and Store at No 7, Springfield Road, CM2 6QR
- OS grid reference
- TL 710 066
- Coordinates
- 51.73261, 0.47581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at No 7 Springfield Road, known as the hop kiln and office and store from the former Gray's Brewery, dates from the 19th century. It is designed on an L-plan and consists of two storeys, with the hop kiln located within the return of the two ranges. The kiln features a tall truncated square-conoid roof topped with a flat lid, which is slate-clad and has leaded hips. The street-facing side is constructed of stock brick and includes four pilasters and a projecting band at the first floor. The roofs are ridged, gabled, and also slate-clad, complete with eaves and troughing.
The ground floor has a central door flanked by a window on each side, all beneath brick arches. The first floor features a central loop-hole and a window six courses deep on each side. There is one chimney stack made of stock brick. Notably, the east end of the front range has an enlarged first-floor band that forms a serpentine pediment made of brickwork, which includes a circular stone medallion carved with a phoenix and is dated 1801.
Local climate
Hop Kiln and Office and Store at No 7 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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