The Barretts is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Barretts
- WRENN ID
- under-sandstone-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Barretts, Howe Street, Finchingfield, CM7 4PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 697 345
- Coordinates
- 51.98368, 0.47064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barretts is a late 17th-century house located in Howe Street, Finchingfield, and altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed, with plastered walls, a thatched roof, and four bays facing southeast. The house has two axial stacks and a crosswing added in 1934. It has one storey with attics. The front has a four-window range of 20th-century casement windows, with three upper windows in swept dormers. The interior features chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, exposed vertical-section joists, and two large wood-burning hearths.
Local climate
The Barretts sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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