Ben Fosters is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Ben Fosters
- WRENN ID
- watchful-buttress-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ben Fosters, Howe Street, Finchingfield, CM7 4PG
- OS grid reference
- TL 702 360
- Coordinates
- 51.99659, 0.47825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ben Fosters is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The house has four bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack in the second bay from the right that creates a lobby entrance. There is a 19th-century external stack at the left end and a 20th-century single-storey extension at the rear of the left end, which has a catslide roof. The building is one storey with attics and has a two-window range of 20th-century casements, with the upper windows set in eyebrow dormers. The front features a door within a 20th-century gabled porch that has a plain tiled roof. Inside, the house displays jowled posts with arched braces set into the exposed studs, along with a clasped purlin roof that includes curved wind braces. The axial beams are stop-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and there are exposed joists of vertical section supported on pegged clamps. A winder stair is located behind the stack.
Local climate
Ben Fosters sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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