Blixes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Blixes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- south-bracket-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blixes Farmhouse, Rank's Green, Fairstead, CM3 2BJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 753 178
- Coordinates
- 51.83177, 0.54353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blixes Farmhouse is a house that has been extended to form two separate homes. It dates from the early 17th century and has been altered in the 20th century. The building is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features four bays facing north, with an axial stack located in the second bay from the right end. There is a wing at the rear of the right bay, also with an axial stack, creating an L-plan, and a 20th-century single-storey lean-to extension beyond this wing. To the left of the main range, there is a large 20th-century extension with an axial stack, which combines with the two left bays to form a separate house. The main range has two storeys, while the rear wing is one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century splayed bays of casements and one additional 20th-century casement. The first floor has three 20th-century casements. The house features a large hipped porch with a 20th-century door, and the roof is half-hipped at both ends. Notable architectural details include jowled posts, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops in both ranges.
Local climate
Blixes Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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