Hurrell's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Hurrell's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-column-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hurrell's Farmhouse, Toppesfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 729 360
- Coordinates
- 51.99639, 0.51772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hurrell’s Farmhouse is an early 17th-century house, altered in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays aligned north-south, facing west, and features an axial chimney stack in the second bay from the south end, characteristic of a lobby-entrance house plan. There is an 18th or 19th century extension to the south, with its own end chimney stack, and a lean-to addition to the rear of this extension. A single-storey extension was added to the south in the 19th century, also with an end chimney stack. The house is single-storey with attics. The windows are primarily late 18th or early 19th century, comprising two 6-panel doors, three double-hung sash windows of 16 lights, one single-hung sash window of 12 lights, and two similar single-hung windows within gabled dormers. Inside, the house features chamfered beams, a mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and a clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Hurrell's 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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