Lower Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottages.
Lower Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- muted-terrace-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Lower Farm Cottages, 1 and 2, Great Henny
- OS grid reference
- TL 882 375
- Coordinates
- 52.00484, 0.74153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farm Cottages is a pair of cottages that were formerly a small farmhouse, dating from the 16th century or earlier. They are timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantile roof that is hipped at the south end and gabled at the north, featuring Suffolk verge boards. The cottages are one storey high with attics and include an off-centre 'L' shaped stack, a gable end stack, and two gabled dormers. There are later single storey gabled extensions that project forward at both ends of the front. The cottages have two plain entrance doors and a mix of 19th century casement windows, some with small panes, some with single horizontal glazing bars, and one early 19th century double hung sash window with small panes. Inside, there is a probable small open hall with heavy framing, joists, and jowled posts. Cottage No. 2 features an early inglenook fireplace beneath the old ridge line stack.
Local climate
Lower Farm Cottages 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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