Challice's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Challice's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-chamber-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Challice's Farmhouse, Water Lane, Sturmer, CB9 7XR
- OS grid reference
- TL 698 440
- Coordinates
- 52.06868, 0.47691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Challice's Farmhouse is a lobby-entrance house dating from the early 17th century. It is timber-framed and has plaster infill, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house is oriented facing south and consists of four bays aligned approximately east-west. An axial chimney stack is located in the second bay from the west end, and there is an external chimney stack on the east end. A small, single-storey lean-to extension, with a 20th-century red clay corrugated tile roof, projects from the east end. The house has two storeys, with glazed doorways and casement windows—five on the ground floor and four on the first floor—all dating from the 20th century. The chimney stack features grouped diagonal shafts. The building was formerly divided into three tenements and subsequently re-combined.
Local climate
Challice's Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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