Woodertons Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1983. Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Woodertons Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-spindle-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Woodertons Farmhouse, Gestingthorpe Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2SN
- OS grid reference
- TL 823 345
- Coordinates
- 51.97988, 0.65422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodertons Farmhouse is a cottage dating from the late 14th century and mid 15th century. It is timber framed and has parget plastered walls. The roof is red tiled and features two gabled dormers. There are red brick chimney stacks on both the right and left sides. The building is one storey with attics and has a two-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. The central entrance has a half-glazed door and is sheltered by a gabled red tiled porch. Inside, there are remains of a 14th-century hall house, which includes a cross quadrant crown post and heavily sooted rafters, along with a 16th-century inserted floor. To the right, there is a 15th-century jettied extension, although the jetty has been underbuilt. At the rear, a 20th-century extension incorporates a 17th-century farm building.
Local climate
Woodertons 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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