Blake House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House. 7 related planning applications.
Blake House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muted-wicket-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blake House Farmhouse, the Salings
- OS grid reference
- TL 701 232
- Coordinates
- 51.88217, 0.47125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blake House Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations and additions made in the 18th century and later. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a rough rendered exterior. The roof is hipped and covered with red plain tiles, and there are red brick chimney stacks on both the right and left sides. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range consisting of three or four light diamond leaded casements, with bay windows on the ground floor. A central gabled timber porch, also with a red plain tiled roof, leads to a vertically boarded door, flanked by sidelights that match the other windows. The right rear wing is one storey with attics, featuring two gabled dormers and a three-window range of vertically sliding sashes with margins, along with central French doors.
Local climate
Blake House 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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