White Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. House.

White Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
under-arch-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
House
Address
White Hall Farmhouse, Toppesfield Road, Wethersfield
OS grid reference
TL 729 327
Coordinates
51.9663, 0.5165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Hall Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The main part of the house consists of three bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack at the right end and a stack from the 18th or 19th century at the left end. To the right, there is a 17th-century two-bay crosswing, which has small extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries that are roofed with corrugated asbestos. A 20th-century crosswing is located to the left. The house has one storey with attics.

On the ground floor, there is one 20th-century splayed bay of casements and three additional 20th-century casements. The first floor features four more casements, including two in slated swept dormers. The entrance has a four-panel door with glazed upper panels, set within a 20th-century porch that has a felt roof. Both crosswings are half-hipped.

The main range displays jowled posts, arched braces set inside heavy studding, and stop-chamfered axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops. The joists are plain and of horizontal section, and the original floorboards are rebated. There is a large wood-burning hearth, which has been refaced in the 20th century. The right crosswing features a chamfered binding beam, plain joists of vertical section, and an early 17th-century clasped purlin roof. The farmhouse was formerly known as Hogg's Farm.

Local climate

White Hall Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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