Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1953. House.
Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-thatch-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elms Farmhouse, Elms Lane, the Salings
- OS grid reference
- TL 693 272
- Coordinates
- 51.91772, 0.46112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elms Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, featuring an exposed frame on the right jettied crosswing. The roof is covered with red plain tiles, and there is a central plastered red brick chimney stack. The building is designed in an H-plan and has two storeys. The window arrangement consists of 2:2:1, featuring various small paned casements as well as horizontal and vertically sliding sashes. A central gabled porch with a vertically boarded door adds to the entrance. The exposed frame includes halved double arched braces at the gable on both the ground and first floors. It is reputed to contain arched braces to tie beams and screen doorways with 4-centred heads.
Local climate
Elms 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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