Abbots Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House.

Abbots Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fossil-stair-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Abbots Farmhouse, the Street, Sturmer
OS grid reference
TL 700 437
Coordinates
52.06614, 0.47919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbots Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles and Welsh slate. The building is L-shaped, consisting of a two-bay range that runs approximately east to west, topped with a tiled roof and an axial chimney stack at the eastern end. There is a three-bay crosswing extending to the north, which has a slate roof and an external chimney stack at its northern end. The house faces south.

At the western end, there is a single-storey rear extension with a central chimney stack, dating from the 19th century. Additionally, there is a single-storey lean-to extension with a corrugated iron roof situated between the rear wings. A small flat-roofed single-storey extension to the east was added in the 20th century. The farmhouse has two storeys with an attic.

The entrance features a four-panel door set in a slated gabled porch with shaped bargeboards, which is from the late 19th century. There is one 19th-century casement window on each side of the door, three on the first floor, and one in the attic of the eastern crosswing. A pentice board is present on the western gable. Inside, there is an ovolo-moulded beam with converging stops located to the east of the main chimney stack.

Local climate

Abbots Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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