Cook's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
Cook's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-hammer-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cook's Farmhouse, Finchingfield, CM7 4QW
- OS grid reference
- TL 701 303
- Coordinates
- 51.94578, 0.4747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cook's Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of interlocking concrete pantiles. The building has four bays facing south, featuring an internal stack at the left end and an axial stack located one bay from the right end. There is a single-storey lean-to extension at the rear. The house has one storey with attics, and it includes four 20th-century casement windows, along with two additional casements in swept dormers. The entrance features a boarded door with a small pane, set in a tiled gabled porch. Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered axial beams and plain joists that have a horizontal section.
Local climate
Cook'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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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