Cottages at Dairy Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1977. A C15 Cottage.

Cottages at Dairy Farm

WRENN ID
proud-flue-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1977
Type
Cottage
Address
Cottages at Dairy Farm, Cuton Hall Lane, Chelmer
OS grid reference
TL 733 080
Coordinates
51.74428, 0.50896
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottages at Dairy Farm are a timber-framed range of cottages, believed to date from the late 15th century or 16th century. The central section was originally a small open hall. The cottages have modern weatherboarding and are plastered at the rear, topped with a tiled roof and featuring south gabled ends. They are one storey high with an attic and have a three-window range with 18th-century sash windows that include glazing bars. There are three plain doorways, one of which has a boarded door while the other is modern. The cottages also have two gabled dormers with horizontal pivot windows that have glazing bars. An off-centre brick chimney stack is present, along with two later stacks at the rear. There are 18th-century and 19th-century additions at the back. Inside, the roof was altered in the 18th century to create the attic, but a 16th-century collar remains, along with a step-chamfered ceiling beam.

Local climate

Cottages at Dairy Farm 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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