Kents Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Kents Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-quoin-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kents Farm Cottage, Lower Stock Road, West Hanningfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 718 999
- Coordinates
- 51.67204, 0.48419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kents Farm Cottage is a 16th-century house that features a timber frame and plaster exterior, with a weatherboarded cross wing at the south end. The cross wing has a jettied upper storey on the front. The building is two storeys high, and the windows are 20th-century casements. The roof is tiled and hipped over the cross wing.
Local climate
Kents Farm Cottage 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
- 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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