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
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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