Luckinghouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Farmhouse.

Luckinghouse Farmhouse

WRENN ID
distant-passage-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1962
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Luckinghouse Farmhouse, Great Maplestead
OS grid reference
TL 811 344
Coordinates
51.97895, 0.63578
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Luckinghouse Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1550, featuring a main range with 17th century gabled additions to the south and a medieval range to the west that has an inserted floor. There are some 18th century finishings present. The structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The main range has two small gables with barge boards, while the west range includes one dormer and two catslides, all gables adorned with scalloped barge boards. There are two red brick chimney stacks, with the western stack having attached diagonal shafts.

The building has a window arrangement of two, one, and one, featuring square leaded casements, with those in the main range having drip hoods above. Inside, the farmhouse contains three inglenook fireplaces and retains original flooring in some rooms, along with exposed timber framing. The roof is a fully framed double side purlin type. Some 17th century iron windows with cobra head catches are present, as well as 17th century panelling on the staircase and 18th century doors and finishings. There is an attached bakehouse and dairy, with the bakehouse featuring a 15th century oak truncated moulded mantel beam above a similarly altered red brick fireplace.

Local climate

Luckinghouse 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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