Gladfen Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A C16 House. 4 related planning applications.
Gladfen Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-bailey-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gladfen Hall Farmhouse, Gladfen Hall Road, Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural, CO9 1RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 810 282
- Coordinates
- 51.92347, 0.63185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gladfen Hall Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th century and has been altered in the 19th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The main range from the 16th century faces west and has a rear stack at the right end. There is a 17th-century rear wing behind the left end, featuring an internal stack at the junction, another stack to the left, and a single-storey lean-to extension beyond it, along with another lean-to extension at the rear. A 17th-century stair tower is located in the rear right angle, accompanied by a lean-to extension to its right, which is roofed with slate.
The farmhouse has two storeys. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century sash windows with 28 lights and margin glazing bars. The first floor features two similar sash windows and one central 19th-century sash window with 16 lights. The central entrance has an early 19th-century six-panel door flanked by fluted Tuscan half-columns and topped with a flat hood. The right rear stack has two octagonal shafts. Some 16th-century floor framing is exposed inside. The early 19th-century staircase, located in the 17th-century stair tower, has stick balusters. Additionally, there is an 18th-century corner cupboard with pilasters and a semi-domed recess.
Local climate
Gladfen Hall 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- Radon risk assessment
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