Leylands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Farmhouse.

Leylands Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Leylands Farmhouse, Owls Hill, Terling
OS grid reference
TL 750 148
Coordinates
51.80508, 0.53824
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Leylands Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of four bays aligned northeast to southwest, with two axial stacks, and an 18th-century range of three bays at the southwest end, creating an L-shaped plan. There is an 18th-century external stack at the right end and an 18th-century extension in the northeast angle with an external stack to the left. Additionally, there is an 18th-century single-storey lean-to extension on the right side of the rear range, which features a catslide roof. The farmhouse is mainly two storeys tall, with the rear end being one storey with attics.

On the southwest elevation, the ground floor has two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights, each with a 19th-century gabled and cusped canopy. The first floor has two early 19th-century sash windows with 4 + 8 lights. There is an off-centre flush six-panel door, also with a 19th-century gabled and cusped canopy. The right return features two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights on the ground floor and two with 4 + 8 lights on the first floor. The left return has three early 19th-century sash windows with 12, 16, and 16 lights respectively on the ground floor, and three with 3 + 6 lights on the first floor. The early 19th-century sashes have many panes of crown glass. Inside, there is one large wood-burning hearth facing southwest, which was blocked in the 19th century and now has recessed cupboards and a coal grate. The northeast part of the house features two chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, while the timber frame is mainly concealed by plaster.

Local climate

Leylands 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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