Largess Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Largess Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- endless-groin-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Largess Farmhouse, Gestingthorpe Road, Belchamp Walter
- OS grid reference
- TL 817 398
- Coordinates
- 52.02748, 0.64776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Largess Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse located on Gestingthorpe Road in Belchamp Walter. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a gabled peg tile roof. It has one storey with attics and features three gabled dormers on the front roof slope. An off-centre ridge line stack is shaped in an 'L' plan form. The windows include a mix of 20th-century and 19th-century casements, each with three rectangular panes. At the rear, there is a lean-to extension. The interior includes a former open hall with a 17th-century inserted floor and a small inglenook stack. The bridging joist is supported by unusual 18th-century inverted hanging knees, and there is a 19th-century corner cupboard.
Local climate
Largess 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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