Unnamed House Approximately 220 Metres North North West of King's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. House.
Unnamed House Approximately 220 Metres North North West of King's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-hinge-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 861 350
- Coordinates
- 51.98272, 0.70875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located approximately 220 metres north-north-west of King's Farmhouse, dating from the 16th century or earlier. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and features a thatched roof. The building consists of four bays facing roughly south, with an axial chimney stack situated in the second bay from the left. It is one storey high with attics and has five 20th-century casement windows along with two plain boarded doors. There is also a 20th-century casement window in a gabled dormer. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. On the left end at the upper level, there is a horizontally sliding sash window with eight lights, dating from the 19th century. Inside, the house has heavy studding and retains an original lodged floor in the right end bay, which includes a framed stair trap. It was formerly known as Bishop's. No interior access was available at the time of the survey in March 1984.
Local climate
Unnamed House Approximately 220 Metres North North West of King'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 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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