Charity Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Farmhouse.
Charity Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-gravel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Charity Farmhouse, Dunmow Road, Great Bardfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 665 295
- Coordinates
- 51.93977, 0.42105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charity Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays facing northeast and features an axial stack located in the second bay from the right end, which creates a lobby entrance. There is a two-storey wing at the rear of the right end. The building is two storeys high and has a three-window range of 20th-century casements. The entrance includes a four-panel door topped with a simple canopy. The roof is half-hipped at both ends and at the rear.
Local climate
Charity 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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