Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Farmhouse.
Mill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- odd-chancel-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Mill Farmhouse, Mill Chase, Steeple Bumpstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 680 400
- Coordinates
- 52.03311, 0.44823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and extensions added in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house consists of three bays arranged approximately northeast to southwest, featuring an axial chimney stack in the northeast bay and an external chimney stack at the southwest end. There is a flat-roofed single-storey extension to the northwest and a large two-storey extension to the northeast, both from the 20th century. The building is single storey with attics.
On the southeast elevation, there is a French window, a glazed gabled porch, and three metal casement windows, all of which are from the 20th century. The interior includes jowled posts, heavy studding, and two plain-chamfered axial beams. In the southwest bay, the joists are of horizontal section and are original. The middle bay features joists of large vertical section on pegged clamps, indicating an inserted floor from the 17th century. The southeast wall plate has an edge-halved and bridled scarf joint. A tie beam between the southwest and middle bays has been severed to create a doorway. The late 16th-century chimney stack has had some brickwork renewed at the ground floor level, and the roof is fully plastered on the interior.
Local climate
Mill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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