Great Waltons Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Great Waltons Farmhouse

WRENN ID
unlit-beam-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 May 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Great Waltons Farmhouse, Steeple Bumpstead, CB9 7BS
OS grid reference
TL 696 428
Coordinates
52.05764, 0.47379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great Waltons Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions made in the 18th century and alterations in the 19th century. It has a timber frame, which is mainly plastered, and is partly covered with yellow bricks laid in Flemish bond. The roof is made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays arranged in a northwest-southeast direction, featuring a central chimney stack and a service wing to the northeast that has an end chimney stack, creating an irregular T-shaped plan. The 18th-century wing is located at the northern angle and has an axial chimney stack where it meets the main range. There is a 20th-century porch at the eastern angle.

The farmhouse has two storeys. The southeast elevation shows the gable end of the main range clad in yellow brick, while the rest is plastered. It features a 20th-century half-glazed door, one tripartite double-hung sash window with 4-12-4 lights from the early 19th century, and one 20th-century casement window. On the first floor, there is one double-hung sash window with 16 lights from the late 19th century, along with another 20th-century casement window. The main chimney stack has grouped diagonal shafts. Inside, there are axial beams with lamb's tongue stops on both floors in the northwest and northeast sections, which are boxed in the southeast rooms. The ground floor contains two 17th-century moulded doors, and there are two more on the first floor.

Local climate

Great Waltons Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 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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