Edgar's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. A Medieval House.

Edgar's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
still-balcony-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1984
Type
House
Period
Medieval
Address
Edgar's Farmhouse, Lamarsh
OS grid reference
TL 894 354
Coordinates
51.98494, 0.75791
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Edgar's Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1500, with extensions made around 1600, and further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and a thatched roof. The building has a two-bay hall facing southwest, which includes a late 16th-century axial chimney stack in the left bay and a storeyed service bay beyond. To the right, there is a one-bay extension from around 1600, complete with an end chimney stack. A 20th-century extension is located at the left end, along with a lean-to extension at the rear of this end, which has a slate roof. The farmhouse is one storey with attics and has a plain boarded door at the front, sheltered by a tiled gabled porch from the 20th century. There are three 20th-century casement windows and two additional windows in eyebrow dormers.

Inside, the farmhouse features jowled posts and heavy studding. The original floor in the service bay consists of lodged plain joists, while the hall has an inserted floor from the late 16th century, with transverse and axial beams that are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The upper part of the rear hall window, which has three diamond mullions, is preserved and is now located inside the rear extension. The main hearth is lined with modern brick, and there is an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the rear wall plate. The collar-rafter roof is heavily sooted and includes a double collar for smoke venting over the service end. There is also some evidence of a smoke bay that existed before the brick chimney was constructed in the late 16th century.

Local climate

Edgar's 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 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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