Hawkin's Harvest is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1981. House. 5 related planning applications.

Hawkin's Harvest

WRENN ID
grey-trefoil-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1981
Type
House
Address
Hawkin's Harvest, Finchingfield, CM7 4QW
OS grid reference
TL 700 305
Coordinates
51.94762, 0.47278
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hawkin's Harvest is a house largely dating to around 1600, with a fragment of a 15th-century structure, extended in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house has five bays facing northwest, featuring an axial stack in the second bay from the left end, an external stack on the right end, and a single bay of a late medieval hall house behind the left bay. A single-storey lean-to extension is present in the rear angle, alongside a large 20th-century extension to the left. The house is two storeys high, with four 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and six 20th-century casement windows on the first floor. A 20th-century door is set within a lean-to porch. The roof is half-hipped at both ends, with grouped diagonal shafts on the main stack.

The single bay at the rear retains a chamfered axial beam with step stops, joists (plastered to the soffits) borne by pegged clamps, jowled posts, and a roof rebuilt in the 17th century, with some re-used smoke-blackened rafters. Within the main building, the left bay exhibits a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, while the right section has two chamfered transverse beams with bar stops, and plain, horizontally sectioned joists throughout. The house contains two large wood-burning hearths: the left hearth includes an oven door but no oven, and the right hearth has a chamfered mantel beam with bar stops. Other features include jowled posts and heavy framing. A late 18th-century corner cupboard, with a spherical top and shaped shelves (slightly altered), is also present.

Local climate

Hawkin's Harvest 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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