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

Taylors Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
carved-baluster-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
House, cottages
Address
Taylors Farm Cottages, Witham Road, Terling, CM3 2AG
OS grid reference
TL 784 143
Coordinates
51.7993, 0.58683
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Taylor's Farm Cottages is a house that has been extended and divided to create a range of cottages. It dates back to the 17th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles and slate. The main range consists of three bays facing west, with a two-bay crosswing to the left and an internal stack at the junction. To the right, there is a 19th-century extension featuring one axial stack and an external stack at the end. The rear has single-storey and two-storey lean-to extensions from the 20th century. The structure is one storey high with attics. On the ground floor, there are seven 20th-century casement windows. The first floor has one 20th-century casement in the crosswing and four more in gabled dormers. There are three 20th-century doors at the sides of the 20th-century lean-to porches. Inside, the building features chamfered axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, and the interior is mainly plastered and modernized. It was recorded by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England as Great Farsley Farm.

Local climate

Taylors 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 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.

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