Parks Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Parks Farm
- WRENN ID
- waning-paling-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Parks Farm, Cock Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 830 349
- Coordinates
- 51.9828, 0.66359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parks Farm is a house dating from the 15th century or earlier. It is timber-framed with panel parget plastering. The roofs are covered in red plain tiles. The house has a central red brick octagonal chimney stack, and an external red brick stack with three octagonal shafts to the right. The layout is an H-shape, featuring a gabled crosswing and a double range with jettied wings to the left. The house has two storeys and attics. There is a gabled dormer to the central hall and oval windows to each gable. The first floor has a 1:1:1 window arrangement, while the ground floor has a 2:2:1 window arrangement, with a variety of small-paned casements and 18th-century small-paned vertical sliding sashes. A 17th-century two-light window is present in the hall. A gabled dormer is also visible to the return of the right crosswing. The entrance is a four-panel door with moulded pilasters, a moulded frieze, and double brackets supporting a flat canopy. Internally, much exposed timber and original brick fireplaces are present, and the house is said to contain original screens and doorways.
Local climate
Parks Farm 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 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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