Lawrence's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Farmhouse.
Lawrence's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rood-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lawrence's Farmhouse, Rosemary Lane, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 794 364
- Coordinates
- 51.99761, 0.61245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lawrence's Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building features three gabled dormers with 19th-century casements and a large red brick chimney stack. The house is laid out in an L-plan and has one storey plus attics. It has a three-window range of small paned casements and an off-centre four-panelled door with two lights, which is sheltered by a flat canopy supported by brackets. Inside, notable features include stop-chamfered bridging and ceiling joists, as well as a restored back-to-back inglenook fireplace with a straight mantel beam above.
Local climate
Lawrence's 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 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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