Hampers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A Medieval House. 7 related planning applications.
Hampers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-dormer-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Hampers Farmhouse, Oak Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 823 334
- Coordinates
- 51.96928, 0.6527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hampers Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations. It has red-tiled roofs and two red brick chimney stacks. The house is arranged in an H-shape, with jettied, two-storey crosswings projecting to the right and left. A central hall is single-storey in height with attics containing gabled dormers. The window arrangement is 1:1:1, featuring various small-paned casements and sliding sashes. A circular window is located in the gable of the left crosswing. The central hall has a gabled trellis porch and a plank and muntin door. Inside the hall, a floor has been inserted and there’s a reputed central tie beam with a four-armed crown post. The east wing contains three braced tie beams.
Local climate
Hampers 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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