Brakes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1976. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Brakes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-solder-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brakes Farmhouse, Maldon Road, Birch, CO2 0NU
- OS grid reference
- TL 933 198
- Coordinates
- 51.84341, 0.8055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brakes Farmhouse is a 16th century house that is timber framed and plastered, with a 19th century grey gault brick front. The building has two storeys and a single storey with attics, topped by a red plain tile roof. Originally designed as a hall house, it features a gabled cross wing that was formerly jettied but is now underbuilt. The facade includes a three-window range of 19th century double hung, vertical sliding sashes and two flat topped dormers. There is also a 19th century porch. Inside, the original roof structure of the cross wing is still visible, along with an original door head.
Local climate
Brakes Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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