Monk's Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Monk's Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
heavy-grate-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Monk's Farm Cottages, Pantlings Lane, Kelvedon, CO5 9PG
OS grid reference
TL 851 202
Coordinates
51.85014, 0.68747
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Monk's Farm Cottages is a house that has been converted into three attached cottages. It dates from the late 16th century and has been altered in the 17th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and roughcast rendered, with a roof made of machine-made red plain tiles. It has four bays facing west, featuring an axial stack located one bay from the left end and a central lateral external stack at the right end. There are two early 20th-century rear wings, each with an internal stack at the end, and a small lean-to extension at the rear of the left wing, which is roofed with corrugated asbestos. The structure is two storeys high.

On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows, although two were boarded over at the time of the survey in September 1986. The first floor has five 20th-century casement windows, along with two doors that were also boarded over during the survey. A 20th-century door leads to number 1 in the right return. Inside, there is a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists in a vertical section in the right bay, and horizontal section elsewhere. The building features jowled posts, close studding with arched tension braces that are trenched to the inside, and some 17th-century internal doors. The roof was rebuilt in the 20th century, and there are 20th-century grates.

Local climate

Monk's Farm Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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