Hosden's Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hosden's Farm House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-cobble-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hosden's Farm House, Sible Hedingham Road, Great Maplestead, CO9 2QU
- OS grid reference
- TL 797 349
- Coordinates
- 51.98411, 0.61543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hosden's Farm House is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with plaster and some older decorative pargetting. The roof is covered with red plain tiles, hipped with a gablet on the right side and a crosswing on the left. There are two red brick chimney stacks and a large attached diagonal shaft chimney stack made of red brick on the left side of the main range. The house has two storeys, with three windows on the first floor and a one-to-three window arrangement on the ground floor, all of which are 20th-century casements. The crosswing has a plank and muntin door.
Local climate
Hosden's Farm House 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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