Causeway Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. A Post-medieval House. 1 related planning application.
Causeway Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-spindle-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Causeway Farmhouse, the Causeway, Ridgewell, CO9 4RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 728 415
- Coordinates
- 52.0454, 0.5197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Causeway Farmhouse is an early 17th century house, or possibly older, that was altered in the early 19th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has four bays aligned northwest to southeast, with a southwest aspect and an axial chimney stack located near the middle. At the northwest end, there is a crosswing consisting of three bays, along with a single-storey lean-to extension featuring a slate roof in the eastern angle.
The farmhouse has a six-panel door with the top panels glazed and five double-hung sash windows, each with 16 lights. On the first floor, there are four similar windows and one single-hung sash window with 12 lights. The windows to the southeast of the door date from the early 19th century, as does the window on the first floor of the crosswing; the remaining windows are 20th-century reproductions. Some of the glass is crown glass. The base of the chimney stack features a dentilled cornice, and there are two octagonal shafts with moulded bases. The ridge tiles are serrated.
On the rear elevation, there is one early 18th-century window with a wrought iron casement and a fixed light, both featuring rectangular leaded glazing, located in a gabled dormer behind the chimney stack, likely associated with an original stair. Additionally, there is one 19th-century cast iron window with three lights at the end of the crosswing.
Local climate
Causeway 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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