Church Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. A Medieval House, cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Church Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- graven-gable-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- House, cottages
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church Farm Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, the Street, Feering, CO5 9QJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 203
- Coordinates
- 51.8504, 0.71784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farm Cottages is a house that has been converted into three cottages. It dates back to the 15th century and was altered in the 19th century. The building is timber framed, plastered, and partly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, topped with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles.
The structure features a short hall range facing northwest with an axial stack at the right end. To the right, there is a two-bay crosswing with a 17th-century stack and a 19th-century extension at the rear. To the left, another two-bay crosswing has a 19th-century internal stack located in the front left corner and a 19th-century extension to the rear. There are also single-storey extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries at the back.
The building is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are four 20th-century metal casements, while the first floor has three 20th-century metal casements and three plain boarded doors. The roofs of the crosswings are hipped at the back.
No. 3, which is the right crosswing, features an underbuilt jetty, plain joists of horizontal section in the front bay, 19th-century thin vertical joists in the rear bay, a wide wood-burning hearth, a cambered central tiebeam with one of two stop-chamfered arched braces, and a crownpost roof that has been altered to a clasped purlin form, with the central crownpost and collars missing. The roof of No. 2, which is the hall range, has been rebuilt in the 19th century. No. 1, the left crosswing, also has an underbuilt jetty. Nos. 1 and 2 were not inspected internally.
Local climate
Church Farm Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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