Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- waiting-moulding-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Park Farmhouse, Church Road, Bradwell, CM77 8EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 808 224
- Coordinates
- 51.87161, 0.62539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Farmhouse is a house dating from the early to mid 16th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with some exposed framing, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The main part of the house consists of three bays facing northeast, with a two-bay crosswing to the right and an axial stack at the junction. There is a 20th-century internal stack at the rear of the left bay of the main range and another 20th-century internal stack in the rear bay of the crosswing. The 18th-century rear wing features an external stack to the left and lean-to extensions on either side of the stack. A 19th-century lean-to extension to the right of the crosswing creates a catslide roof. The house has one storey with attics.
On the ground floor, there are three 19th-century and two 20th-century casement windows, while the first floor has two 19th-century casements. The entrance features a door with a gabled canopy. The upper storey of the main range has exposed framing, and there is a gablet hip at the left end of the main range. The structure includes jowled posts, heavy studding with 'Suffolk' bracing on the outside, and edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates. There are shutter grooves for unglazed windows at the front, rear, and left end. The middle bay of the main range has lodged plain joists of horizontal section arranged longitudinally, while the other joists are plastered to the soffits.
A large wood-burning hearth, originally part of a timber-framed chimney, faces to the left and features a chamfered and mitred mantel beam that has since been bricked in. The crosswing has a crownpost roof complete with four axial braces, while the main range also has a crownpost roof; however, one tiebeam, crownpost, and braces are missing. The rear wing is roofed with re-used smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval hall. Inside the catslide extension to the right, some 18th-century patterned plaster in panels is preserved on what was formerly an external wall.
Local climate
Park 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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