Mosses Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Mosses Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-mantel-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mosses Farmhouse, Cock Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 831 343
- Coordinates
- 51.97777, 0.6658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mosses Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th century and later. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red tiled roof. The building features an off-centre right red brick chimney stack and a left external red brick chimney stack that includes a tiled bake oven. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a four-window range, primarily consisting of small paned horizontal sliding sashes. There are red tiled porches at both the left and right doors, with the right door being made of three vertically boarded sections. Inside, the house has chamfered bridging joists, jowled storey posts, and internal doors from around 1800, complete with ironmongery.
Local climate
Mosses 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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