Howe House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Howe House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-cobalt-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Howe House, Great Hickbush, Great Henny, CO10 7LU
- OS grid reference
- TL 878 370
- Coordinates
- 52.00043, 0.7348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howe House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from around 1600, and possibly earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. The roof is made of clay pantiles, with some blue and black tiles, featuring a gabled end at the west and a hipped end at the east. The building has two storeys, with a single-storey stair lean-to at the back, also covered with clay pantiles, and an additional lean-to porch with peg tiles. There is an off-centre rectangular red brick ridgeline stack above the inglenook and a tall, thin stack that rises through the roof of the rear lean-to. The front of the house displays patches of old pargetting. The layout follows a baffle-entry plan type and includes jowled storey posts, halved and bladed scarf joints, and possible remnants of a parlour wall that may have been incorporated from an earlier structure.
Local climate
Howe House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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