Cooksferry Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1976. Farmhouse.
Cooksferry Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-vestry-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cooksferry Farmhouse, Poole Street, Great Yeldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 763 372
- Coordinates
- 52.00585, 0.56845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cooksferry Farmhouse is a house from the mid-17th century that has been extended in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and partly bricked, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays with a chimney stack located in the middle bay, oriented north-south. Originally, there was a lobby entrance on the west side, which is now blocked. There is a single-storey rear wing from the north bay that dates to the 18th century. A large 19th-century extension is located to the southwest, consisting of two parallel ranges made of flint and brick, with a lean-to extension that has a slated roof in between. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension to the north from the 20th century. The farmhouse is two storeys tall. The west and north elevations of the original house are made of painted brick in English bond. The entrance features a 20th-century door and two 19th-century double-hung sash windows with eight lights. On the first floor, there are two 20th-century casement windows. Inside, the house has face-halved and bladed scarfs in both wall plates, along with chamfered beams that have lamb's tongue stops above all four rooms.
Local climate
Cooksferry 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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