Priestfields Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Farmhouse.
Priestfields Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-belfry-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Priestfields Farmhouse, Kirby Hall Lane, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 784 381
- Coordinates
- 52.01284, 0.59886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priestfields Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and has ashlar line plastered walls. The roof is covered with red plain tiles. The house features a gabled crosswing on the left side and has a large red brick chimney stack to the left of the main range, as well as a red brick stack on the crosswing. The building is two storeys high, with a 1:4 window arrangement on the first floor and a 1:2 arrangement on the ground floor, which includes small paned casements. The ground floor on the left side has a 20th-century hipped red tiled bay. There is a gabled central porch that is part brick and part plastered, with a vertically boarded door. It is reputedly built on the foundations of a medieval secular building.
Local climate
Priestfields 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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