Boote House is a Grade II* listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Boote House
- WRENN ID
- lone-cornice-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Boote House, Chelmsford Road, Felsted, CM6 3DH
- OS grid reference
- TL 676 203
- Coordinates
- 51.85656, 0.43355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boote House is a house built around 1596, located at the corner of Chelmsford Road and Braintree Road. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring a long wall jetty facing Braintree Road, as well as jetties on the first floor and attic along Chelmsford Road. The roof is plain and covered with red tiles. The house is timber framed and plastered, with a three-window range of small paned casements on Braintree Road and one range on Chelmsford Road, which includes an angled bay on the ground floor. There is a plank and muntin door on Braintree Road.
Notable features include four curved jetty brackets with carved running foliage, and the bressumer on Braintree Road is intricately carved with flowers and dragons. The front bressumer displays the inscription "George Boote made this house 1596," flanked by floral motifs. A carved grotesque female figure with cloven hooves serves as one of the dragon brackets. Matching brackets can be found on the right side of Braintree Road. The first floor jetty has a plain down-braced bressumer with end and centre pendants, and the roof structure is supported by side purlins.
Local climate
Boote House 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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