Home Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Home Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- inner-paling-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Home Farm Cottages, Hall Drive, Gosfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 770 301
- Coordinates
- 51.94168, 0.57505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farm Cottages is a pair of cottages built around 1850-1860 for Samuel Courtauld. They are primarily constructed of red brick, featuring black brick diapering and gault dressings. The cottages have plaster on three prominent gables and the first floor. There are three red and gault brick chimney stacks on the rear ridge, with one on each of the feature gables. The cottages are two storeys high, with three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all made of iron with ornate glazing bars and gauged brick arches. The ground floor has two central vertically boarded doors with square lights. These cottages are similar in style to others found in the village.
Local climate
Home Farm Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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