Homecot is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Homecot
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-sandstone-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Homecot, Fairstead Road, CM3 2BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 768 171
- Coordinates
- 51.82506, 0.5652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Homecot is a cottage dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building consists of two bays aligned east to west, featuring a stack at each gable end. A 19th-century extension is located along the north side, which has a catslide roof, and there is a smaller lean-to extension beyond that. At the east end, a 20th-century single-storey extension has been added, roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. The cottage is one storey high with attics.
On the south garden elevation, there are three 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century door. The main entrance is located in the northeast angle, featuring a 20th-century door within a porch that has a corrugated asbestos roof. The east stack retains a bread oven iron with a door located in the middle of the rear wall of the hearth, which is an unusual position; the mantel beam has been renewed. A 20th-century grate is present in the west stack, and some of the framing is exposed internally.
Local climate
Homecot 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 1995
- 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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