Friar's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Friar's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-gable-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Friar's Farmhouse, Dagnets Lane, Black Notley, CM77 8QP
- OS grid reference
- TL 743 197
- Coordinates
- 51.84874, 0.52929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friar's Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with additions and alterations from the 18th century and later. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof that is hipped to the left. The building features a coved eaves cornice and has an off-centre red brick chimney stack, along with a concertina shaft red brick chimney stack on the right return. The house has two storeys and a lower range extension at the rear right.
The front of the house has a four-window range of vertically sliding sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded surrounds, and there is a small paned vertically sliding sash window at the rear right. The entrance on the off-centre right consists of a two-light door with a moulded surround and a moulded stepped flat canopy above it. Inside, notable features include an inglenook fireplace, stop-chamfered bridging joists, and a carved jowl inscribed with "W.A.-S." There are also original nailed board and muntin doors, along with two other original doors. At the rear, there is a brick and flint dairy room.
Local climate
Friar's Farmhouse 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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