Fenn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Fenn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-bastion-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fenn Farmhouse, Great Henny
- OS grid reference
- TL 864 374
- Coordinates
- 52.00384, 0.71512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fenn Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1792, as noted on a plaque on the chimney stack. It is timber framed and plastered, consisting of two storeys and shaped in an L-plan. The main roof is covered with clay peg tiles and is gabled at both ends. There is a 20th-century rear block that is one storey high with attics and features a gambrel roof.
The main elevation displays a painted timber cornice with consoles. On the first floor, there are two tripartite double hung sash windows with single vertical glazing bars, positioned on either side of a similar conventional double hung sash window. The ground floor features pairs of similar double hung sash windows flanking the entrance door, which has a flat hood and a moulded architrave surround. Each gable end of the farmhouse is topped with a tall red brick chimney stack.
Local climate
Fenn Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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