Gould's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Gould's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
low-stone-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Gould's Farmhouse, Shalford Road, Rayne, CM77 6DF
OS grid reference
TL 724 231
Coordinates
51.88042, 0.50404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gould's Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof and features an off-centred red brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and a rear outshot, with a four-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. There is a 20th-century open gabled porch that includes a two-light, two-panelled door. Inside, there is a back-to-back inglenook fireplace with chamfered brick edging and a chamfered mantel beam, along with chamfered bridging joists. An inscribed date of DC 1725 appears on a side brace, likely relating to 18th-century alterations. The house also features a 17th-century moulded fire surround.

Local climate

Gould's 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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