Stours Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 8 related planning applications.

Stours Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ruined-vestry-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Stours Farmhouse, Lower Stoke Road, Ashen, CO10 8JQ
OS grid reference
TL 751 434
Coordinates
52.06184, 0.55371
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stours Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays arranged roughly east to west. An axial chimney stack is located in the second bay from the west end; this originally created a lobby-entrance to the north, but is now blocked. A rear wing extends to the south of this stack, with a further chimney stack at its end. A short 19th-century extension projects from the rear, and there is a single-storey, 20th-century lean-to extension in the southeast angle.

The north elevation has two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor. The first floor features one 19th-century, eight-light, horizontally sliding sash window, and one 20th-century casement window.

Inside, the house retains original features including jowled posts, curved bracing, trenched inside heavy studding, and plain-chamfered beams with run-out stops, described as having lamb's tongue stops. An original post with a rounded square knob is located at the foot of the staircase.

Local climate

Stours Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 8 applications
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  • 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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