Gardeners Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. House.
Gardeners Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crooked-cornice-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gardeners Farmhouse, Mowden Hall Lane, Hatfield Peverel
- OS grid reference
- TL 787 098
- Coordinates
- 51.75839, 0.58867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardener's Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features a combination of partly timber framing clad with gault brick and partly painted brick, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It has four bays facing northeast, with an axial stack located in the second bay from the left end, which creates a lobby-entrance. There is an 18th-century wing at the back of the right end, along with 20th-century extensions on both the left and right sides, the latter being a single storey with a flat roof.
The farmhouse is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are five late 18th-century sash windows, each with 12 lights, including one adjacent pair, all featuring flat brick arches, along with three 20th-century sash windows. The first floor has five late 18th-century sash windows of 12 lights and two 20th-century sash windows. A half-glazed door is set within a 20th-century gabled porch. The walls have been raised by approximately one metre. Inside, some timber framing is exposed, showing close studding with curved tension braces that are trenched to the inside. There is a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and the wallplate features face-halved and bladed scarfs. The house also contains two large wood-burning hearths, which are currently blocked.
Local climate
Gardeners 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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