Dynes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1953. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Dynes Farmhouse

WRENN ID
strange-arch-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 May 1953
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Dynes Farmhouse, Shalford Green, CM7 5AZ
OS grid reference
TL 713 274
Coordinates
51.91935, 0.49055
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dynes Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack in the second bay from the left, which creates a lobby entrance, and an original rear wing located behind the stack. There are 18th-century extensions at both rear corners that form a parallel range to the back of the house.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a four-window range of early 20th-century casements. A plain boarded door from the 20th century is located in a lean-to porch. The house features grouped diagonal shafts and two 19th-century horizontally sliding sashes with 12 lights in the right return wall. Notable architectural details include jowled posts, curved tension braces set inside heavy studs, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops.

There are blocked small windows at the front of the room to the right of the stack, which were originally part of a frieze group. The hearths on the ground and first floors face to the left and have rounded backs, which is an unusual feature. The rear wall of the original wing, which was once a single storey, has been raised approximately 1.5 metres during the 18th-century alterations, although the end tiebeam remains intact.

Local climate

Dynes 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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