Essex House, and Front Boundary Walls and Gate Piers is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. House.

Essex House, and Front Boundary Walls and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
rough-jade-saffron
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Essex House, and Front Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, High Street, Badminton
OS grid reference
ST 804 826
Coordinates
51.5427, -2.28291
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Essex House is a house dating from around 1700, built in the Queen Anne style. It features a rendered exterior with freestone quoins and a hipped roof made of Cotswold stone slate, along with ashlar stacks. The house has two storeys and consists of five bays, with two-light casement cross windows that have lead cames and iron casement stays. The central entrance is a panelled door set within an ashlar bolection moulded surround, above which is an impressive carving of the Beaufort arms, framed by a cartouche and set against a diamond background, topped with a coronet. The property is enclosed by low, coped ashlar boundary walls, which include central ashlar piers topped with ball finials. Inside, there are panelled rooms on the first floor.

Local climate

Essex House, and Front Boundary Walls and Gate Piers 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 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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