Wren Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Wren Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rusted-quoin-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wren Park Farmhouse, Dagnets Lane, Black Notley, CM77 8QP
- OS grid reference
- TL 753 193
- Coordinates
- 51.84481, 0.54351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren Park Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century, with later alterations and additions, including a 20th-century two-storey gabled stair turret. The building is timber framed and rendered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. It features an off-centre right red brick chimney stack. The farmhouse is two storeys tall, with a one-storey and attic extension to the left that has a catslide dormer. The first floor has a window range of one, one, one, and one, while the ground floor has a range of two or three light leaded casements in the arrangement of one, two, zero, and one. There is a 20th-century four-panel two-light door leading to the stair turret and a 20th-century glazed lean-to porch to the left. Inside, notable features include a 15th or 16th-century chamfered brick inglenook fireplace with a slightly cambered mantel beam above, stop-chamfered bridging joists, jowled storey posts, three original board doors with ironmongery, and several 18th-century doors with ironmongery.
Local climate
Wren Park Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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