Burches Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House.
Burches Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- young-vestry-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Burches Farmhouse, the Green, Colne Engaine
- OS grid reference
- TL 851 305
- Coordinates
- 51.94292, 0.69171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burches Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1580, with alterations made in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with handmade red clay tiles. The building features a 4-bay long-jetty design facing south, with an axial stack positioned to the right of the center and a 19th-century external stack at the left end. There is a 19th-century rear wing constructed of red brick, which has an end stack. The house is two storeys high.
On the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century sash windows with six lights and one early 20th-century square bay window with casements. The first floor contains two similar sash windows and one early 20th-century casement window. The entrance features a 19th-century four-panel door with a shallow fretted canopy above it. The eaves are adorned with plaster coving.
The building has an underbuilt jetty, with jowled posts and close studding. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams that are unstopped, a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, and chamfered joists in the 'hall' area that also have lamb's tongue stops. The right bay has plain joists of horizontal section, while the axial beam is boxed in the left bay. The roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Burches Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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