Simpsons Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Simpsons Farm
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-flue-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Simpsons Farm, Pannels Ash Lane, Pentlow, CO10 7JT
- OS grid reference
- TL 794 444
- Coordinates
- 52.06928, 0.61656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Simpsons Farm is a cottage dating back to the 15th century or earlier, originally a hall house, with subsequent alterations and additions. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a red plain tiled roof featuring a hip and gablet to the right, and a weatherboarded left gable. It has two storeys and a two-window front with vari-light casements, some incorporating centre glazing bars. A red brick chimney with three attached diagonal shafts is located to the right.
Inside, original mullion windows remain, along with jowled storey posts on both the ground and first floors. Brick floors are also present. Original features include a fireplace, stop-chamfered beams, a chamfered arched doorway, and remnants of the original roof structure, including a partially surviving crown post. Other original details include a halved and bridled scarf to the top plate and some jowled posts. The site is a moated one. The building was undergoing restoration at the time of resurvey.
Local climate
Simpsons Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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