Eagle Farm Cottages is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A Early Modern Cottages.

Eagle Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
waiting-hearth-lake
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
Cottages
Period
Early Modern
Address
Eagle Farm Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, Ridgewell Road, Birdbrook
OS grid reference
TL 724 427
Coordinates
52.05655, 0.51389
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Eagle Farm Cottages is a Grade II* listed long-jetty house dating from the early 16th century, with extensions added in the 19th century. The building is timber framed and has plaster that mimics stone blocks, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It consists of five bays aligned approximately north-south, with an eastern aspect and an axial chimney stack located near the center. There is a northern extension featuring an external chimney stack at the end, and a western extension with an internal chimney stack, creating an L-plan layout. The house is two stories high.

On the eastern elevation, there is a six-panel door at the front of a flat-roofed porch (for no. 3), a four-panel door (for no. 2), and three 20th-century casement windows. The full-length jetty is plastered, supported by four hollow-moulded brackets visible below. The first floor has three 20th-century casement windows. In the northern extension (no. 1), there is one 20th-century casement window on each floor. The central chimney stack features four grouped diagonal shafts.

Inside, above the ground floor, the joists have double-ogee mouldings and elaborate foliate stops, while the beams also feature double-ogee mouldings. The original timber ceiling above the first floor is richly decorated, with beams and wall plates carved in a helical foliate design that is deeply cut and fringed. The joists on this level are double-ogee moulded with foliate stops. The roof structure includes side purlins with arched wind-braces.

Local climate

Eagle Farm Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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