Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Mill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
inner-steel-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Mill Farmhouse, Ashen Road, CO10 8LG
OS grid reference
TL 762 442
Coordinates
52.0684, 0.57007
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century, with extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in machine-made clay tiles. The building consists of four bays aligned approximately east to west, featuring a chimney stack in the second bay from the west end, which creates a lobby entrance and stair hall to the north. The house was extended to the east and west in the 19th and 20th centuries, and there is an external chimney stack at the east end.

The farmhouse has two storeys, with a four-panel door that has glazed upper panels, situated in a slated gabled porch. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows, while the first floor features two 19th-century and two 20th-century casement windows. Inside, the structure includes jowled posts, curved bracing set within heavy studding, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, plain-chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and exposed joists of horizontal section.

Between the main chimney stack and the front door, there is an original newel stair that rises to the attic floor, which is currently unlit. The upper part of the front wall contains an unglazed window with four diamond mullions that is blocked externally. Historical drawings in the owner's possession indicate that the roof was originally thatched before being tiled around 1956.

Local climate

Mill Farmhouse 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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