Kitchen/Dovecote, Approximately 100 Metres North of Little Braxted Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1959. A C15 Dovecote.
Kitchen/Dovecote, Approximately 100 Metres North of Little Braxted Hall
- WRENN ID
- sombre-spindle-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1959
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TL 835 148
- Coordinates
- 51.8018, 0.6605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a kitchen that was later used as a dovecote, located approximately 100 metres north of Little Braxted Hall. It dates back to the 15th century and is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding. The roof is hipped and covered with pointed red tiles. The structure features a door and loft openings, and it is composed of a square layout with two bays. Inside, there are chamfered arched braces supporting the collar beam, and spur braces positioned above the top plates. The storey posts are chamfered and jowled, with halved wall braces. Some walls have window openings with central mullions. Dowel holes can be seen at regular intervals along the studs, and the timber shows heavy sooting throughout. The building is situated within a moated enclosure, and there was no access at the time of the re-survey.
Local climate
Kitchen/Dovecote, Approximately 100 Metres North of Little Braxted Hall 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
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