Hornigalls Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. House.

Hornigalls Farmhouse

WRENN ID
far-chimney-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1988
Type
House
Address
Hornigalls Farmhouse, Little Tey Road, Feering
OS grid reference
TL 888 223
Coordinates
51.86764, 0.7409
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hornigalls Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. The original 16th-century structure features a two-bay crosswing aligned northwest to southeast, with an 18th-century extension built on the site of a former hall to the southwest, and a further 20th-century extension beyond. Externally, the building resembles an aisled hall with two crosswings.

The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with the northwest elevation displaying four 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, along with a 20th-century door. The left crosswing jetties out at the front, while the right crosswing also jetties out to the right. The left crosswing features jowled posts, curved tension braces set into the close studding, and an unglazed window with four diamond mullions on the ground floor of the left return, as well as another on the first floor with restored mullions. There is a shutter groove for an off-centre unglazed window at the front, below the jetty.

Inside, the original partition between the bays includes straight braces set into the studs, and the joists are plain and square in section. In the central part of the house, there is an 18th-century wood-burning hearth facing to the rear. The right end of the 18th-century extension reveals exposed framing with primary straight bracing and carpenters' assembly marks. Some old timber has been reused in the 20th-century right crosswing.

Local climate

Hornigalls Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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