Gunces Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House.
Gunces Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- inner-rampart-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gunces Farmhouse, Stambourne Road, Great Yeldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 741 383
- Coordinates
- 52.01645, 0.53607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gunces Farmhouse is a house primarily built in the 16th century, with a 17th-century extension and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main hall range runs northeast to southwest and includes an axial chimney stack at the northeast end, along with two 2-bay crosswings. There is a one-bay 17th-century extension to the northwest of the southwest crosswing, and a single-storey lean-to extension from the 19th or 20th century to the northwest of the hall range. An external chimney stack from the 19th or 20th century is located on the northeast elevation. The building has two storeys and an attic.
On the southeast elevation, there is a continuous jetty and three matching gables, with the middle one serving as a facade gable. The central entrance features a 6-panel door with glazed top panels, and there is a range of three windows made of 19th or 20th-century casements, plus an additional window in the central gable. Inside, the farmhouse has jowled posts, curved braces set within heavy studs, and beams in the hall range that have double ovolo mouldings, along with plain joists that are of horizontal section.
Local climate
Gunces 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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