Daw Street Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Daw Street Farmhouse

WRENN ID
salt-turret-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Daw Street Farmhouse, Finchingfield
OS grid reference
TL 692 317
Coordinates
51.95834, 0.46191
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Daw Street Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, with extensions added in the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, plastered, and partly made of painted brick, topped with handmade red clay tiles. The main section of the house faces east and has an axial stack; the right part of the stack is from the 17th century, while the left part is a 19th-century extension. There is a single-storey lean-to extension along the entire length of the rear, also from the 19th century. The house is two storeys high with attics, and there is a wing that extends forward at the right end, made of painted brick, featuring an external stack at the angle. This wing is one storey with attics and has a three-window range of 20th-century casements. The main entrance features a six-panel door with glazed top panels, set in a 19th-century gabled porch, and there is also a four-panel door with upper glazed panels. The main range includes one gable with a 20th-century casement. Both stacks have grouped diagonal shafts. Inside, the house has jowled posts, chamfered axial and transverse beams (some of which are boxed in), exposed joists with a horizontal section, and clasped purlin roofs. The earliest features can be found in the rear end of the northern wing.

Local climate

Daw Street Farmhouse 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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