Prayors Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.

Prayors Farm House

WRENN ID
keen-flagstone-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
House
Address
Prayors Farm House, Prayors Hill, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3LE
OS grid reference
TL 775 344
Coordinates
51.97999, 0.58337
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Prayors Farm House is a house that dates back to the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a red plain tiled roof. The house has an off-centre red brick chimney stack with three square shafts and an external left red brick chimney stack. It stands two storeys high and has a four-window range of 19th-century three-light vertically sliding sashes with lattice glazing bars. To the left, there is a vertically boarded door with similar glazing bars in a moulded surround, topped with a flat canopy supported by brackets.

Local climate

Prayors 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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