Dairy Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1977. House. 1 related planning application.
Dairy Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- scarred-nave-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dairy Farm Cottages, Cuton Hall Lane, Chelmer
- OS grid reference
- TL 732 081
- Coordinates
- 51.74506, 0.50785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dairy Farm Cottages is a 17th century timber frame house featuring brick-faced end walls and modern weatherboarding on the front. It has a steep gable-ended roof covered with modern tiles and an external brick stack at each end. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The windows are a mix of modern and mid-19th century casements, and there is a modern hood over the central doorway on the ground floor. Inside, the cottage has step-chamfered ceiling beams and three 17th century doors. There are 18th century and later extensions at the rear.
Local climate
Dairy Farm Cottages 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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