Skilletts Farmhouse Including Front Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Skilletts Farmhouse Including Front Garden Wall

WRENN ID
fallen-parapet-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Skilletts Farmhouse Including Front Garden Wall, Pentlow
OS grid reference
TL 811 447
Coordinates
52.07115, 0.64199
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Skilletts Farmhouse, dating from around 1450, features a timber frame with a red brick chimney added around 1500. The exterior is rough rendered, and it has a hipped roof with gablets covered in red plain tiles. The house is two storeys high and has a rear extension as well as a single-storey extension to the right. The front has a three-window range with 20th-century small paned casements, including two oriel windows on the ground floor. There is a 20th-century open pediment porch and a small paned glazed door. The original fireplace from around 1500 has replaced a timber chimney. Inside, the first floor has an arched brace to the tie beam and a two-armed crown post roof, with collars on every rafter pair. A plaster partition in the roof is inscribed with "frederick Hubbard 1662 Cavendish." The house also contains several 18th-century doors and is likely situated on a moated site. A front garden is enclosed by an 18th-century wall made of red brick and flint.

Local climate

Skilletts Farmhouse Including Front Garden Wall 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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