Brays is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1978. House. 1 related planning application.

Brays

WRENN ID
young-trefoil-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochford
Constituency
Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1978
Type
House
Address
Brays, 173, Little Wakering Road, Barling Magna, SS3 0JQ
OS grid reference
TQ 934 883
Coordinates
51.56056, 0.78891
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

"Brays" is a house located on Little Wakering Road in Barling Magna, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. The building features a timber frame with plastered exterior and a long red plain tiled roof. It has four hipped dormers situated off-center at the rear and external right red brick chimney stacks, one of which has stepped offsets and two diagonal shafts. The house is one storey with attics and includes a five-window range of leaded two-light casements. The entrance door is located opposite the rear chimney stacks and has a simple surround with a flat canopy supported by brackets. At the rear, there is a lean-to and a gabled roof on a part plastered, part weatherboarded stair turret. The date "1634" is inscribed in the plaster.

Local climate

Brays receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
  • 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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