Fishers Farmhouse Including Single Storey Range to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House, farmhouse.

Fishers Farmhouse Including Single Storey Range to Rear

WRENN ID
tenth-stair-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1962
Type
House, farmhouse
Address
Fishers Farmhouse Including Single Storey Range to Rear, North Road, Belchamp Walter
OS grid reference
TL 818 412
Coordinates
52.03995, 0.64989
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fishers Farmhouse, including a single storey range to the rear, is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century and late 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with peg tile roofs. The building is two storeys high and nearly square in shape, consisting of two parallel ranges, with the roof extending across the northern end and featuring hips at the northwest and northeast corners. The west range has two gabled dormers and a ridge line stack, while the east range has a large 'L' plan form ridge line stack. The windows are 20th century casements, each with a single horizontal glazing bar. The north front features a central rustic gabled porch. The east range is part of a larger late 16th century house, showcasing close studding and remnants of ovolo mullioned windows. The rear half of this range, behind the large inglenook stack, has been rebuilt. The west range is a late 17th century house that is now connected to the earlier range by a two-storey corridor, which includes a central inglenook stack and much reused timber. Inside, there is a 17th century panelled door on the stairs, and the attic stairs feature an upper balustrade made of simple 17th century turned balusters. To the rear, and formerly connected, is a single storey pantiled brewhouse and outbuilding with rendered clay lump walls, an old boiler, and an oven.

Local climate

Fishers Farmhouse Including Single Storey Range to Rear 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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