Clark's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. House.

Clark's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sharp-keep-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1988
Type
House
Address
Clark's Farmhouse, Crabbs Lane, Kelvedon
OS grid reference
TL 847 180
Coordinates
51.83086, 0.67935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clark's Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and roughcast rendered, topped with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The house has five bays facing southwest and features two axial stacks. At the rear, near the left end, there is an 18th-century dairy wing and a single-storey lean-to extension to the left of it. A crosswing with a near-central stack was added around 1919, along with a contemporary flat-roofed single-storey corridor extension along the back of the main range.

The building has two storeys with an original attic. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casements, an early 20th-century square bay attached to the right side of the porch, and 20th-century French windows. The first floor has four 20th-century casements, with two more in hipped dormers and one in the gable of the crosswing. A 20th-century half-glazed door is located in the gabled porch.

Architectural details include jowled posts, heavy studding, and chamfered binding and bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops, some featuring an additional notch. The joists are plastered to the soffits. Above the first floor, there are chamfered straight tiebeams and bridging beams with lamb's tongue-plus-notch stops. The storey heights are approximately 2.30 metres on the ground floor and 2.40 metres on the first floor. The original straight staircase has a chamfered newel post with lamb's tongue stops, and serpentine flat balusters with a moulded handrail leading up to the attic.

It is noted that the right end of the main range was reportedly damaged by fire in 1919, after which the crosswing was constructed.

Local climate

Clark's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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