Fenner's Farmhouse North of Pepper's Farm Complex is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Farmhouse.
Fenner's Farmhouse North of Pepper's Farm Complex
- WRENN ID
- still-rampart-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fenner's Farmhouse North of Pepper's Farm Complex, Sible Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 763 328
- Coordinates
- 51.96599, 0.56531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fenner's Farmhouse, located north of the Pepper's Farm complex, is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier for the rear range, with a front range added in the 19th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with red plain tiled roofs that have a double range design. It features external red brick chimney stacks on both the right and left sides of the front range, as well as a central chimney stack on the rear range. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range of vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars. There is a 20th-century central enclosed porch that includes a two-panelled two-light door. Inside, notable features include exposed stop-chamfered bridging joists and heavy ceiling joists in the rear range.
Local climate
Fenner's Farmhouse North of Pepper's Farm Complex 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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