Piccott's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1953. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Piccott's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-jamb-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1953
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Piccott's Farmhouse, Piccotts Lane, the Salings, CM7 5DW
- OS grid reference
- TL 708 256
- Coordinates
- 51.90362, 0.48182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Piccott’s Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, with an earlier 17th-century rear wing and a late 18th-century service wing. 20th-century alterations have also been made. The farmhouse is timber-framed, rendered, and has a plain tile roof which is half-hipped, with gabled rear and service wings. Brick ridge and end stacks are present. The original 3-unit plan was extended in the late 18th century to create an L-shape. A rear right wing is two storeys high. The front of the house has a three-window range to the right, remodelled in the late 18th century with 4/12/4-pane tripartite sashes, and a late 18th-century six-panelled door with carved brackets supporting a hood. A 20th-century window is located to the far left, replacing a former dairy window. A lower, one-storey service range extends to the right and returns to the rear, incorporating a brewhouse range with a 19th-century plank door, a 3-light casement window, and a large external stack to the rear gable. The rear of the main range has late 19th-century 3-light casement windows, an outshut housing a staircase to the right, a jettied early 17th-century rear wing, and a 19th-century plank service door to the left.
Inside, the ground floor has stop-chamfered beams, and the first floor has chamfered tie beams. A room to the left of the centre has an ovolo-moulded lintel over the fireplace, flanked by cupboards. A late 18th-century bay to the left features a latticed door leading to a former ground-floor dairy. The service wing on the right has chamfered beams of light scantling, an open fireplace, a bread oven and a copper. The former brewhouse to the rear is open to the clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Piccott's Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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