Locksmith's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Farmhouse.
Locksmith's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-corbel-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Locksmith's Farmhouse, Howe Street, Finchingfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 708 364
- Coordinates
- 52.00001, 0.48677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Locksmith's Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered and roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The main range has three bays facing east, with an axial stack located in the middle bay, creating a lobby entrance. To the right is a three-bay crosswing, which is an independent structure that includes a 19th-century internal stack at the rear. There is an 18th-century extension to the left, which has an internal stack at the end. At the back of the main range, there is a single-storey extension with a catslide roof.
The house stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are three early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights, along with one imitation window that is painted on the plaster of the crosswing. The first floor features three similar windows and one with 12 lights, as well as a similar imitation window. The entrance includes a six-panel door with the top panels glazed, set in a simple doorcase with a shallow hood supported by twin moulded brackets. A wooden parapet runs along the front and extends approximately one metre at the sides. Inside, the building has jowled posts, axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists with a horizontal section.
Local climate
Locksmith's 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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