Whitehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Whitehouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lesser-pinnacle-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitehouse Farmhouse, Whitehouse Lane, Belchamp Otten, CO10 7BJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 800 426
- Coordinates
- 52.05287, 0.62433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitehouse Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with 19th-century red brick facing and alterations, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has a gabled crosswing on the left and a roof that includes a gablet and a hip to the right. There is a 20th-century single-storey garage extension on the far right. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of one large window and three smaller ones, all with small paned vertically sliding sashes, mostly accompanied by side lights. Additionally, there is a 20th-century ground floor semi-circular bay window with a hipped roof. The windows and door feature gauged brick arches with keystones. The eaves cornice is dentilled, and there are pilasters on the crosswing. A two-panel door with four lights is located to the right. The garage extension includes two garage doors and a half-glazed door. The building has three red brick chimney stacks and is situated within a homestead moat.
Local climate
Whitehouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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