Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1979. House.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-foundation-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Bradwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 821 242
- Coordinates
- 51.88665, 0.64507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The house has four bays facing southeast, with an axial stack located in the second bay from the left end, and there are 20th-century extensions at the rear of the right end. The building is two storeys high and features a three-window range of 20th-century casements. The entrance has a 20th-century six-panel door, which is framed by an 18th-century moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze, and an incomplete moulded pediment. The left bay, which was originally the parlour, includes a chamfered axial beam with limb's tongue stops. Much of the interior features re-used 16th-century timber that was previously plastered over but has now been stripped. There are two large wood-burning hearths and two plain internal doors from the 18th century.
Local climate
Church 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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