Panfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. House.
Panfield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crooked-gable-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Panfield Farmhouse, Hall Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 735 249
- Coordinates
- 51.89608, 0.52043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Panfield Farmhouse is a house from the early 19th century. It is primarily built of gault brick in Flemish bond, with the rear constructed of red brick in the same bond, and has a slate roof. The house has a double pile plan facing north and features two internal stacks that are symmetrically arranged. To the right, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension. The building is two storeys high.
On the ground floor, there are two original sash windows with 16 lights each, topped with flat brick arches. The first floor has two similar sash windows and one with 12 lights located above the central door. Some of the glass is crown glass. The central entrance features a six-panel door with glazed top panels, set within a 20th-century porch that has a pediment and simple columns. The corners of the house are accentuated by plain giant pilasters, and the central section of the façade is slightly set forward.
On the left side of the house, there are inscriptions reading 'M.B. 1844', 'J.B. 1844', and 'Dr. B'. The rear elevation mirrors the front but is made of red brick, with segmental window arches and a similar door that has a flat canopy supported by profiled brackets. Inside, there is an original staircase featuring scrolled tread ends, a wreathed rosewood handrail, and stick balusters.
Local climate
Panfield 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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