Nether House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Nether House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-keep-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Nether House Farmhouse, Old Road, Wickham St. Paul, CO9 2PU
- OS grid reference
- TL 839 365
- Coordinates
- 51.99653, 0.67762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nether House Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is half hipped and covered with red tiles, featuring a central red brick chimney stack and an external red brick chimney stack on the left side. The building has two storeys and attics, with a three-window range of 20th-century three-light casements. There is a red tiled gabled porch that is partly glazed and has ornate upper lights, leading to part glazed double doors. The farmhouse consists of four bays, showcasing heavy stop-chamfered bridging joists and jowled storey posts. Inside, there are 18th-century and 19th-century panelled doors, as well as 18th-century board doors with ironmongery. The roof structure includes side purlins with angled collars.
Local climate
Nether House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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