Church Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1953. House.

Church Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muffled-transept-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 May 1953
Type
House
Address
Church Hall Farmhouse, London Road, Kelvedon
OS grid reference
TL 856 182
Coordinates
51.83217, 0.693
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Hall Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is timber framed, roughcast rendered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The building has a double-range plan facing southwest, with two internal stacks symmetrically placed between the ranges. There is a single-storey lean-to extension from the 19th or early 20th century on the left side of the rear range, which is roofed with asbestos tiles. Additionally, there is a 19th-century single-storey service range at the rear left, constructed of red brick.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics. On the ground floor, there is a 19th or early 20th-century square bay window with casements and a hipped roof, along with one blocked window. The first floor features two early 19th-century tripartite sash windows, originally with four-12-four lights; the outer sashes of the left window have been altered in the 20th century to two lights each. There is also a central early 19th-century sash window with 12 lights and a central early 19th-century door with four fielded panels and two flush panels. This door is set in a doorcase with a dentilled and moulded open pediment on carved scrolled brackets, and it has a fanlight with slender radial and scrolled tracery made of cast iron. A 20th-century rustic porch has been added.

Both ranges have roofs that are half-hipped at both ends. The right elevation, which faces London Road, has a ground floor featuring a 20th-century French window and an early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights made of crown glass. On the first floor, there is another early 19th-century sash window with 12 lights, and in the attic storey, there are two semi-circular lights with radial tracery. The left return retains one early 19th-century sash window with 12 lights. Inside, the ground floor has axial beams, while the first floor has transverse beams, all boxed in. The rear service range still contains the entrance and iron door of a large bread oven, although the main part of the oven has been demolished.

Local climate

Church Hall Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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