Bridge House Wash Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A Medieval House.

Bridge House Wash Farm House

WRENN ID
broken-flue-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
House
Period
Medieval
Address
Bridge House Wash Farm House, Queen Street, Sible Hedingham
OS grid reference
TL 786 330
Coordinates
51.96715, 0.59847
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge House, also known as Wash Farm House, is a house dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century. It features an exposed timber frame with plaster infill set on a brick plinth, topped by a red plain tiled roof. The house has moulded eaves bressumers on both the right and left sides of the jettied gabled crosswings. There are two red brick chimney stacks, and a floor and chimney stack were inserted in the hall in the early 17th century. The building has two storeys with attics in the crosswings, which include three light windows. The main façade has a window arrangement of 1:2:1, featuring segmental headed leaded casements with 6:3:6 lights. A 20th-century gable porch with a red tiled roof and a boarded door is present, along with a blocked four-centre door head to the left of the hall. There is also a single storey lean-to extension on the right side.

Local climate

Bridge House Wash Farm House 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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