Jenkins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House.

Jenkins Farmhouse

WRENN ID
bitter-jamb-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
House
Address
Jenkins Farmhouse, Bulmer
OS grid reference
TL 845 387
Coordinates
52.0166, 0.68808
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Jenkins Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with some of the timber frame exposed on the front elevation. The building has two storeys and an 'L' shaped plan, topped with gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The main range features a long wall jetty and a large off-centre ridge line stack with six octagonal shafts. The front has 20th-century metal casement windows with large panes and a 20th-century gabled porch with a peg tile roof and imitation framing. There is a slate-roofed lean-to at the rear.

Inside, the timber frame is exposed, showcasing chamfered bridging joists and joists at the north end. The hall bay contains bridging joists with ogee and hollow mouldings. At the south end, there is an additional bay, while the northernmost bay was the former service end. The major stack has two arch-headed brick fireplaces on the first floor, one of which retains its original plaster coating. The scarf joints are halved and bridled, and the roof, rebuilt around 1800, features king posts and 'V' struts.

Local climate

Jenkins 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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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