Thurston's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Thurston's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gentle-portal-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Thurston's Farmhouse, Toppesfield, CO9 4NN
OS grid reference
TL 710 363
Coordinates
51.99964, 0.49054
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thurston's Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 18th century and further changes in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building features a two-bay east-west range that includes a central chimney stack from the 17th century. Attached to the southwest is a larger 18th-century range that runs north-south and has one axial chimney stack facing west. The rear range is a single storey with attics, while the main range has two storeys with attics.

The entrance includes a half-glazed door set in a Tudor Revival porch made of plastered brickwork from the 19th century. On the ground floor, there is an early 20th-century sash window with 16 lights, and on the first floor, an early 19th-century sash window with 12 lights. The rear range features chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists, mostly of horizontal section, although some replaced joists are of vertical section. The interior of the larger range was not accessible during the survey.

Local climate

Thurston's Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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