Hewson's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House.
Hewson's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- north-spindle-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hewson's Farmhouse, Kirby Hall Lane, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 782 376
- Coordinates
- 52.00835, 0.59607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hewson's Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a half hipped red tiled roof with two gabled dormers. The house has an off-centre 16th century red brick chimney stack and a 20th century chimney stack at the rear. It is one storey with attics and has a three-window range of 20th century casements. There is a 20th century red tiled porch with brackets and a 20th century door with a sidelight. The house consists of four bays and has an integral first floor. Notable features include a moulded and carved rear storey post, a framed rear staircase door to the first floor, and halved and bridled wall plate scarfs.
Local climate
Hewson'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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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