Little Smiths Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Little Smiths Green Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solemn-roof-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Little Smiths Green Farmhouse, Steeple Bumpstead, CB9 7DY
OS grid reference
TL 669 401
Coordinates
52.03433, 0.43172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Smiths Green Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a slate roof. The building has four bays aligned east-west and features an axial chimney stack located in the second bay from the west end, facing north. There is also an 18th or 19th-century chimney stack on the rear wall. A two-storey rear extension with a lean-to roof was added in the 19th century. The farmhouse is approximately symmetrical in appearance, with an early 20th-century half-glazed door set in an eared doorcase topped with a dentilled open pediment from the 18th century. On the ground floor, there are four double-hung sash windows with 12 lights, two of which are blocked by trellis, and five on the first floor, dating from the late 18th century. The building features rusticated quoins made of plaster and has a half-hipped roof. Inside, the interior includes plain-chamfered beams.

Local climate

Little Smiths Green 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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