Parsonage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Farmhouse.

Parsonage Farmhouse

WRENN ID
eastward-tin-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Parsonage Farmhouse, Long Green Lane, the Salings
OS grid reference
TL 684 266
Coordinates
51.91319, 0.4475
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Parsonage Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is covered with red plain tiles, hipped to the left, while a lower range extension from the 20th century is hipped to the right. The house features a central red brick chimney stack and an additional red brick stack on the left rear crosswing. It is designed in an L-shape and has two storeys with a window arrangement of three large and one smaller window, featuring 19th and 20th-century vari-light casements. A central gabled porch, also red tiled, leads to the main range and has a board door.

Inside, the farmhouse includes jowled storey posts and some exposed wall studding. The bridging joists are chamfered and were originally supported by heavy arched braces. The roof has heavy timbers for the side purlins, and the top plates show halved and bridled scarf joints. There are solid tread stairs leading to the attic in the crosswing. Shutter grooves and mullion slots are also visible. The property is situated within a homestead moat.

Local climate

Parsonage 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 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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