Quy's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. A C17 Farmhouse.
Quy's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-bracket-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Quy's Farmhouse, Toppesfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 384
- Coordinates
- 52.01743, 0.52108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quy's Farmhouse is a 17th-century house that was extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with some areas of exposed framing, and has a thatched roof. The house consists of four bays aligned approximately east-west, with a central chimney stack and 19th or 20th-century chimney stacks at each end. There is a 20th-century extension to the north, creating an irregular T-plan. The farmhouse is single storey with attics.
On the south elevation, there is a 20th-century porch and four 20th-century casement windows, two of which have external hinged shutters. Additionally, there are two 20th-century casement windows in eyebrow dormers, all featuring rectangular leading. The central stack has grouped diagonal shafts that have been rebuilt at the top. The exposed framing at the front includes some imitation elements. Inside, there is some exposed framing, chamfered axial beams, and plain joists of flat section in the western part of the house.
Local climate
Quy's Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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