Barns and Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1980. A Early Modern Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Barns and Gate Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tenth-wattle-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Barns and Gate Farmhouse, Nounsley Road, Hatfield Peverel, CM3 2NG
- OS grid reference
- TL 798 103
- Coordinates
- 51.76275, 0.6044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barns and Gate Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The building features a two-bay crosswing facing north, which has a 19th-century external stack to the right. To the left is a two-bay hall range of 17th-century origin, although it has been significantly altered in the 20th century. There is also a 20th-century crosswing to the left, which includes one internal stack and extensions to the rear.
The crosswings are two storeys high, while the hall range is one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casements, and on the first floor, there are four, including two in gabled dormers, all featuring diamond leaded glass. The entrance has a 20th-century door. Both crosswings have jetties, supported by two plain brackets that are exposed below the right jetty.
Most of the original interior features are found in the right crosswing. These include jowled posts, close studding with curved tension bracing that is trenched to the outside, a chamfered binding beam with plain stops, and plain joists that are horizontally sectioned and jointed to it with soffit tenons and diminished haunches. There is a cambered central tiebeam with arched braces, and a crownpost roof with a plain post and axial bracing, which was originally hipped to the rear and is almost complete. The building also has diamond mortices and shutter grooves for unglazed windows at both the front and back.
Local climate
Barns and Gate 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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