Hyde Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1984. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Hyde Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-hall-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hyde Farmhouse, Hyde Lane, Wethersfield, CM7 4DR
- OS grid reference
- TL 737 302
- Coordinates
- 51.94363, 0.52647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hyde Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays facing southeast and includes an axial stack. There is a 19th-century lean-to extension at the rear of the left end and a two-storey extension at the rear of the right end. The building is one storey with attics and has two mid-19th-century sash windows with six lights, one 19th-century casement window with four lights, and two 19th-century horizontally sliding sash windows with four lights in gabled dormers. The entrance features a 19th-century four-panel door with a shallow hood supported by profiled brackets.
The chimney has two diagonal shafts and a third square shaft grouped together. The structure includes jowled posts, heavy studding with curved tension braces that are trenched to the outside, and a large wood-burning hearth facing to the right with a 20th-century grate to the left. To the left of the stack, there is a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops and joists that are plastered to the soffits. To the right of the stack, there is a similar beam on posts with moulded jowls and plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps. In the right bay, there are longitudinal plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps, along with a blocked inserted window featuring an ovolo mullion from the early 17th century. The original rebated floorboards are still present.
Local climate
Hyde Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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