Nunnery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A C16 House. 8 related planning applications.
Nunnery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-crypt-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nunnery Farmhouse, Nunnery Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3DR
- OS grid reference
- TL 778 355
- Coordinates
- 51.99019, 0.58822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nunnery Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is timber-framed and plastered, with panel pargetting ornamentation. The roof is covered with red plain tiles, and there are two red brick chimney stacks. The house consists of a front range and a wing to the rear left. The left front range is jettied, featuring a carved bracket to the left. The house has two storeys and a two- or three-light window range of leaded casements, some of which retain original frames and ironmongery, and drip hoods. A vertically boarded door is protected by a canopy and brackets, and a range of matching windows are present on the right return. It is believed that the house contains an original doorway with a four-centred arch under a square head, moulded jambs, carved leaf and mullet decoration to the spandrels, and arched braces to tie the beams.
Local climate
Nunnery 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2018
- 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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