Scotneys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House.
Scotneys Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-garret-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Scotneys Farmhouse, Toppesfield Road, Great Yeldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 754 375
- Coordinates
- 52.00843, 0.5544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scotneys Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1500, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has three bays aligned northeast to southwest and faces northwest, featuring a late 16th-century chimney stack in the middle bay. There is a single-storey extension added in the 19th century to the northeast, which includes a central chimney stack, and a 20th-century single-storey extension with a hipped roof to the southwest. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a door located in a tiled gabled porch. On the ground floor, there are six casement windows, and three on the first floor, two of which are in gabled half-dormers, all dating from the 20th century.
Inside, the structure includes jowled posts, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, and plain joists of horizontal section that are jointed to chamfered axial beams with unrefined soffit tenons. The roof features crownpost construction and is mostly original, retaining nearly all of the original rafters and collars, most of the collar purlin, and one plain crownpost. The walls are entirely plastered.
Local climate
Scotneys 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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