Golden's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

Golden's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winter-beam-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Golden's Farmhouse, Braintree Road, Wethersfield, CM7 4AD
OS grid reference
TL 716 304
Coordinates
51.94646, 0.49623
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A house dating from circa 1600, with alterations in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It has four bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack positioned one bay from the left end. A one-bay extension was added in the 18th century, with a 20th-century external stack at the rear. The southeast elevation has two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor. The first floor features one 18th-century wrought iron casement, another with an added fixed light, and one 20th-century casement. A 20th-century glazed door is present. The northwest elevation has three 20th-century casements on the ground floor and two 20th-century casements on the first floor. Also on the first floor are two 18th-century three-light windows each with a wrought iron casement, one 18th-century and one 17th-century. A 20th-century glazed door is also present. The interior displays jowled posts, arched corner bracing trenched inside the studding, and a face-halved and bladed scarf in the front wallplate. The floor has been raised approximately 0.30 metres and includes a chamfered axial beam and plain joists of vertical section. A large wood-burning hearth is present. There are two 17th-century moulded doors, each made of four planks.

Local climate

Golden's Farmhouse 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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