Hunts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House.
Hunts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-entrance-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hunts Farmhouse, Chapel Road, Ridgewell
- OS grid reference
- TL 735 410
- Coordinates
- 52.041, 0.52976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunts Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building consists of four bays arranged approximately northwest to southeast, featuring an axial chimney stack located in the second bay from the northwest end, facing northeast. At the southeast end, there is a single-storey extension with a slate roof, which was originally a late 19th-century shop. There is also a lean-to extension at the rear. The farmhouse is single storey with attics and has a six-panel door with glazed top panels, a slated gabled porch, and three 20th-century casement windows. Inside, there is a plain-chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops to the southeast of the stack, and a transverse beam that is boxed in to the northwest of the stack. The roof features clasped purlins.
Local climate
Hunts 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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