Street Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Street Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ragged-sill-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Street Farmhouse, Henny Street, Great Henny
- OS grid reference
- TL 879 382
- Coordinates
- 52.01115, 0.73725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Street Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 15th and 17th centuries, with 19th-century external details. It is timber framed and plastered, standing two storeys high with gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The building has an 'H' plan form, featuring two crosswings and a mid-19th-century extension at the north end. The front displays two gabled and jet tied crosswings, with a higher ridge line over the hall. There is one gabled dormer in the hall roof and an off-centred ridgeline stack in an L shape. The early 19th-century double-hung sash windows have small panes and are located in the crosswings, hall, and the 19th-century extension. Central to the hall is an early 19th-century door surround with a panelled frieze, fluted pilasters, and the original door featuring coloured glass inserts. The rear of the farmhouse has a long single-storey lean-to covered in peg tiles, a 19th-century conservatory, and a gabled single-storey extension on the south end. All gables are adorned with mid-19th-century fretted bargeboards and finials. The south crosswing features an encased tiebeam with a steeply cambered profile, while the hall exhibits timber framing characteristic of the 17th century.
Local climate
Street 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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