Outbuilding and Adjoining Rear of Claredown Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Outbuilding.
Outbuilding and Adjoining Rear of Claredown Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-brass-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- Outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- TL 776 445
- Coordinates
- 52.07058, 0.59102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an outbuilding dating from the 17th century, located at the rear of Claredown Farmhouse. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a loft, featuring a 17th century red brick chimney stack that includes the original fireplace and mantel beam. Inside, there are heavy chamfered bridging joists. The gable end has a casement window, and there is a vertical boarded door on the return wall.
Local climate
Outbuilding and Adjoining Rear of Claredown Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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