Homelye Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. Cottage.

Homelye Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
carved-sandstone-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Homelye Farm Cottage, Braintree Road, Great Dunmow
OS grid reference
TL 649 225
Coordinates
51.87728, 0.39457
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Homelye Farm Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, featuring a weatherboarded end wall. There is a brick extension on the left side of the building. The cottage has a thatched roof, a plain board door, and one small-paned casement window. Additionally, there is one gabled dormer and a red brick chimney stack.

Local climate

Homelye 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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