Hovell's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Hovell's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sleeping-groin-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Hovell's Farmhouse, Coggeshall, CO6 1NU
OS grid reference
TL 826 239
Coordinates
51.88442, 0.65255
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hovell's Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The building has a square plan facing approximately north, with two internal stacks arranged symmetrically. At the rear, there is a lower service range with an internal stack and a 20th-century extension that has a roof covered with corrugated asbestos. The farmhouse is two storeys high.

On the ground floor, there are three late 18th-century to early 19th-century sash windows, each with 12 lights and crown glass. The first floor features four late 18th-century to early 19th-century sash windows with a configuration of 3+6 lights. The entrance has an off-centre six-panel door, where the upper four panels are fielded and moulded while the lower panels are flush. This door is set in a wooden doorcase with attached Tuscan columns, a fanlight with radial tracery, and an open pediment.

The east elevation has two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights on the ground floor, along with one 20th-century casement window, and two 19th-century casements on the first floor. The roofs are linked in a parallel arrangement and are fully hipped. A map from 1731 indicates that a different house once stood on this site, featuring a ridge stack near the left end, an external stack at the right end, and four gables.

Local climate

Hovell's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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