Gatewoods Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. A Early Modern Farmhouse.

Gatewoods Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gaunt-chancel-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Early Modern
Address
Gatewoods Farmhouse, Mill Lane, Rayne
OS grid reference
TL 721 221
Coordinates
51.87178, 0.49943
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gatewoods Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The building features two red brick chimney stacks on the left forward gabled wing, one of which has attached diagonal shafts, and an external right stack to the right of the main range. The left range is single storey, while the right range is two storeys high. The house has a 1:2 window arrangement of vari-light leaded casements. There is a 20th-century gabled porch to the left of the main range, which includes a panelled door, and a stable door is located on the left range. The left range also shows a tusk tenon, with the frame exposed at the gable end.

Local climate

Gatewoods 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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