Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-quartz-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Hall Farmhouse, Steeple Bumpstead, CB9 7EJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 689 400
- Coordinates
- 52.03329, 0.46087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall Farmhouse is an 18th-century house that has been altered in the 20th century but retains remnants of a 17th-century structure. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of two parallel ranges aligned northeast-southwest, featuring a central corridor on each floor and one axial chimney stack in each range. It is two storeys tall with a symmetrical elevation. The central entrance has a glazed door with an open pediment from the 20th century, flanked by two splayed bays, each containing three double-hung sash windows with 12-16-12 lights. One of these windows is from the 18th century, while the other is a 20th-century reproduction. On the first floor, there are two 18th-century double-hung sash windows with 12 lights. The roof is hipped.
The northeast (rear) elevation features two 18th-century windows, each with one wrought iron casement and two fixed lights, along with 20th-century leading. Inside, the house has plain-chamfered axial beams with simple concave stops in each range, which are partly boxed in. The large chimney stack in the northwest range dates back to the early 17th century and has a replaced mantel beam. Some timbers in the roof have been reused from an earlier house. The staircase features bobbin-turned balusters from the 17th century. The farmhouse is situated on a moated site.
Local climate
Old Hall 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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