Sheepcote Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. Farmhouse.
Sheepcote Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-iron-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sheepcote Farmhouse, Boars Tye Road, Silver End
- OS grid reference
- TL 814 204
- Coordinates
- 51.85342, 0.63318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sheepcote Farmhouse is a late 16th century or early 17th century timber-framed and plastered house, designed in an L-shaped plan with wings extending to the north-east and south-east. The south-west front was re-faced in the 18th century with red brick, featuring a parapet and raised brick bands above the ground and first storey windows. The building has two storeys and a four-window range with casement windows. The roof is tiled and hipped, topped with a central chimney stack that has sunk rectangular panels. The south-west front displays a panel inscribed "Rebuilt 1785 AH." Additionally, there is an early 16th century barn located to the south-west of the house, which has been re-roofed with corrugated iron.
Local climate
Sheepcote Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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