Upper Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 3 related planning applications.
Upper Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scarred-baluster-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Upper Farmhouse, Ovington Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 767 424
- Coordinates
- 52.05216, 0.57641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It has a T-shaped plan and is constructed from timber framing and plaster. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and features hipped sections with gablets. The building has two storeys and a four-window range made up of 19th and 20th-century casements, including one flat-roofed bay on the left side of the ground floor. The entrance includes a four-panelled door with two lights, a frieze, and a flat canopy above. There is a 16th-century red brick chimney stack on the left side, which has attached octagonal shafts. Additional structures have been added to the rear of the farmhouse.
Local climate
Upper Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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