Bounces Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House.
Bounces Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-screen-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bounces Farmhouse, Hall Drive, Gosfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 762 308
- Coordinates
- 51.94834, 0.56321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bounces Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th to 18th century. It has a timber frame with 18th to 19th century gault brick facing and a later corrugated asbestos roof. The house features a central gault brick chimney stack and a dentilled eaves cornice. It is two storeys high and has a two-window range of casements with segmental arches and moulded brick driphoods. There is a central gabled porch with bargeboards, and the entrance includes a plank and muntin door with three lights above. To the right and left, there are single-storey extensions with glazed black pantile roofs, one of which includes a bake oven.
Local climate
Bounces Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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