Pannels Ash Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 8 related planning applications.
Pannels Ash Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- narrow-span-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pannels Ash Farmhouse, Sudbury Road, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 800 362
- Coordinates
- 51.99564, 0.62107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pannels Ash Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, featuring decorative panel pargetting. The roof is covered with red plain tiles, and there are central and right red brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and a four-window range, primarily consisting of vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars, some of which have margins. The central entrance door is adorned with a frieze, a flat canopy, and brackets. Inside, there is a restored red brick fireplace with a straight mantel beam that shows signs of a painted pattern, along with stop-chamfered ceiling beams. There are also visible mullion slots. The rear wing is faced with painted flint and brick.
Local climate
Pannels Ash 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 8 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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