Fairstead Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Fairstead Hall

WRENN ID
fossil-storey-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Fairstead Hall, Fairstead Hall Road, CM3 2BN
OS grid reference
TL 767 166
Coordinates
51.82063, 0.56268
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a late 18th-century house, altered in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with plaster panels and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house is arranged on a square plan with the main entrance facing southwest, overlooking the farmstead, and gardens to the northwest and northeast. There are two internal chimney stacks. A single-story lean-to extension has been added to the southeast. The house is two stories high.

The southwest elevation, which faces the farmstead, has a two-window arrangement of 18th-century sash windows, each with 16 lights. A four-panel door, with glazed upper panels, is set at the centre, and has a 20th-century fretted gable above it. There are two small gables with 20th-century fretted bargeboards. The northwest elevation, facing the road, has two ground-floor 18th-century sash windows, each with 20 lights and crown glass, which have been reset within 20th-century square bays. Above these are two 18th-century sash windows, also with 16 lights and crown glass. The northeast elevation, facing the church, has two similar windows on the ground floor, and three similar windows and one with 12 lights on the first floor. Modern double-glazed doors incorporate an 18th-century fanlight with radial tracery. Crown glass is present in most of the sash windows.

Local climate

Fairstead Hall 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 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Grade I 73 m
  2. The Old Rectory Grade II 269 m
  3. Walnut Tree Cottage Grade II 314 m
  4. Elmhurst Grade II 321 m
  5. Pond Cottage Grade II 465 m
  6. Beauchamps Grade II 473 m
  7. Homecot Grade II 523 m
  8. Troys Hall Grade II* 865 m
  9. Great Loyes Farmhouse Grade II 1.0 km
  10. Oak Lodge Grade II 1.1 km