Upper Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. A Early Modern House.
Upper Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-roof-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Upper Farm Cottage, Ashen
- OS grid reference
- TL 746 419
- Coordinates
- 52.04805, 0.54576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Farm Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with a 20th-century extension. It features a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof. The building has two normal bays aligned northwest-southeast and a short chimney bay to the northwest, which includes an axial chimney stack. There is a single-storey lean-to extension on the northwest side, connecting to a porch on the southwest of the chimney bay. The cottage is single-storey with attics.
On the southwest elevation, there is a 20th-century door, two 20th-century casement windows, and one small window, along with a 20th-century casement in a swept dormer. The roof is half-hipped at the southeast end. Inside, the cottage features jowled posts, heavy studding, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and exposed plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps. There is a large wood-burning hearth with an aperture and door for a bread oven, although the oven itself has been demolished. The original front door was located to the northeast of the chimney stack but is now blocked.
Local climate
Upper Farm Cottage 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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