Beacons is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Beacons
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-newel-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beacons, Felsted, CM6 3LX
- OS grid reference
- TL 687 196
- Coordinates
- 51.84985, 0.44849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 17th or 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It is a two-storey building with a rear wing. The roof is hipped and covered with red plain tiles. The house has a timber frame and rough rendering to the walls. It has three ranges of small-paned sash windows. A 20th-century four-panel door is set in a round-headed doorway with two lights to either side. There are two red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Beacons 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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