Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Timbers
- WRENN ID
- south-step-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Timbers, Howe Street, Finchingfield, CM7 4JB
- OS grid reference
- TL 693 343
- Coordinates
- 51.98142, 0.46472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Timbers is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a thatched roof. The house has four bays facing southeast and includes a stack located in the second bay from the left, against the rear wall, which dates from the late 16th century. There is a staircase extension in front of the stack, added around 1936, which has a hipped roof. The building is two storeys high and has three 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor, along with a 20th-century door and a gabled porch.
Inside, the house has jowled posts, heavy studding with curved tension braces that are trenched to the inside, and transverse and axial chamfered beams with step stops. The heavy plain joists are of horizontal section. Although the stack is made of small bricks and was built in the second half of the 16th century, it is an addition to a short bay that was likely originally designed for a timber-framed chimney. The mantel beams are chamfered and feature lamb's tongue stops.
Local climate
Timbers 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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