Sheepcote Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1983. Farmhouse, house. 1 related planning application.
Sheepcote Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hidden-lintel-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse, house
- Address
- Sheepcote Farmhouse, Great Henny, CO10 7LR
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 388
- Coordinates
- 52.01656, 0.72639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sheepcote Farmhouse is a mid to late 17th-century house, originally a farmhouse. It is timber-framed and plastered, with gabled peg tile roofs. The main block runs east to west and is two storeys high, with three gabled blocks projecting to the rear; the westernmost of these is a single storey with attics. Windows are 20th-century leaded light casements and casements with a single horizontal glazing bar. A central ridgeline stack has two diagonal shafts. The house has a conventional baffle entry plan form, simple straight-braced framing, and a double-sided inglenook fireplace. Inside, there is an early 19th-century corner cupboard featuring serpentine shelves and an ogee-like head.
Local climate
Sheepcote 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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