Freezes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 5 related planning applications.
Freezes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-gutter-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Freezes Farmhouse, North Street, Steeple Bumpstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 677 411
- Coordinates
- 52.04337, 0.44503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Freezes Farmhouse is a late 17th-century house that was altered around 1800. It is timber-framed and has a plastered exterior, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house is aligned approximately northeast to southwest and has two chimney stacks along its axis, facing southeast. A single-story lean-to extension to the rear of the northeast end was added in the 18th or 19th century. The house has two storeys plus attics. The front has two 6-panel doors, each with a reeded architrave; one door has a rectangular light above it with geometrical tracery, and the other has a painted imitation of the same. There are four 12-light double-hung sash windows on the ground floor, dating to around 1800. The first floor has five similar windows, plus one painted imitation. Three 19th-century casement windows are set within flat-roofed dormers in the attic.
Local climate
Freezes Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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