Coleman's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House.
Coleman's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- empty-cupola-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Coleman's Farmhouse, Howe Street, Finchingfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 700 346
- Coordinates
- 51.98446, 0.47473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coleman's Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1570, with alterations made in the early 19th century and an extension added in the late 19th century. The building is plastered with a slate roof and has a main range facing northwest, featuring one axial stack. At the rear of the left part, there is a late 19th-century parallel range with one internal stack, and a single-storey lean-to extension along the rest of the rear. The house is two storeys high and has a four-window range of sash windows with 20 lights; three of these on the ground floor are early 19th-century with crown glass, while the others are later reproductions. The entrance features a 20th-century glazed door set within an early 19th-century reeded doorcase that has a shallow dentilled hood. There is a dentilled band below the eaves and modillioned eaves, along with a low-pitched roof. The gables are adorned with late 19th-century fretted bargeboards. Inside, the ground floor room to the right of the stack has chamfered beams and joists with horizontal sections, featuring step stops and lamb's tongue stops.
Local climate
Coleman's 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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