Thorncroft Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Thorncroft Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-pediment-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Thorncroft Farmhouse, Great Henny
- OS grid reference
- TL 867 379
- Coordinates
- 52.00859, 0.71901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorncroft Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th century or earlier. It is timber framed and plastered, designed in an L-plan form, featuring two clay pantile roofs with Suffolk verges and a small section of half hipped peg tile roof. The windows are 19th-century casements with a single horizontal glazing bar. There is a very small, central ridgeline stack on a wain block, along with a later stack against the rear wall. The building includes a small open hall house with a later inserted floor. The parlour end has interrupted tie beams and a door at each end of the parlour wall. The block at the front has later framing.
Local climate
Thorncroft 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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