Harvey's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. House.
Harvey's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- young-loft-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Harvey's Farmhouse, Old Road, Bradwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 814 243
- Coordinates
- 51.88847, 0.63517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harvey's Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The building has an L-shape, facing south, featuring a crosswing at the left end that includes a 19th or 20th-century internal stack at the front left corner, and a main range with an internal stack at the right end. There is a single-storey extension from the 19th century at the rear of the crosswing, which also has an internal stack. The house is one storey high with attics and has a two-window range of 20th-century casements. The front entrance features a late 19th-century half-glazed door with a plain overlight. The front is weatherboarded while the remaining sides are plastered, with a one-metre high exposed base wall of red brick in Flemish bond on the right return and rear of the main range. The ridge of the crosswing is lower than that of the main range. Inside the crosswing, there are jowled posts, curved bracing that is trenched inside heavy studding, which is partly exposed. The main range has a deeply chamfered axial beam and some plain joists with a horizontal section. The left crosswing has a clasped purlin roof, while the other areas are ceiled. Most of the timber frame is concealed by internal finishes.
Local climate
Harvey's 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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