Dancing Dicks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Farmhouse.

Dancing Dicks Farmhouse

WRENN ID
forgotten-pedestal-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Dancing Dicks Farmhouse, Dancing Dicks Lane, Terling
OS grid reference
TL 794 139
Coordinates
51.7952, 0.60014
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dancing Dick's Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays facing east and features an axial stack located in the second bay from the left end. There is a two-storey extension from the 19th or 20th century at the back of the left end, and a single-storey lean-to extension from the 18th or 19th century along the remainder of the rear. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension to the right, which has an external stack at the end. The building is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century sash windows and three 20th-century casement windows. The first floor has three 20th-century sash windows. The entrance features a four-panel door topped with an early 19th-century dentilled pediment. Inside, the interior is mainly plastered with boxed beams, although one original chamfered joist of horizontal section is visible. The walls were raised by approximately 0.8 metres in the 18th century, and the roof was rebuilt.

Local climate

Dancing Dicks Farmhouse 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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