Ancillary Building Approximately 6 Metres South of Russell's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Ancillary building.
Ancillary Building Approximately 6 Metres South of Russell's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-trefoil-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Ancillary building
- OS grid reference
- TL 712 309
- Coordinates
- 51.95048, 0.49072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an ancillary building located approximately 6 metres south of Russell's Farmhouse. It dates from the early 16th century and was altered in the 17th century. The building is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It has two bays facing northwest and features a single-storey extension at the front with a catslide roof. There is also a lean-to extension at the right end, which encloses a 17th-century wood-burning hearth, although the chimney has been demolished. The building stands two storeys high and includes jowled posts and heavy studding with 'Suffolk' bracing that is trenched to the outside. Inside, there is a chamfered binding beam with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section that are jointed to it with soffit tenons and diminished haunches. The upper storey of the rear wall has two blocked unglazed windows, each featuring three diamond mullions. The roof structure consists of a crownpost with axial bracing. This building is of high quality and represents an unusual type, and its proximity to the farmhouse suggests it was originally used as a granary.
Local climate
Ancillary Building Approximately 6 Metres South of Russell's Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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