Boars Tye Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1982. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Boars Tye Farmhouse

WRENN ID
veiled-gable-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 May 1982
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Boars Tye Farmhouse, Boars Tye Road, Silver End, CM8 3QA
OS grid reference
TL 809 200
Coordinates
51.84973, 0.62521
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Boars Tye Farmhouse is a 17th century building located on Boars Tye Road in Silver End. It features a timber frame with plaster and stands two storeys high with attics, topped by a clay peg tiled gable roof. The front has a four-window range of modern casements with leaded lights positioned in their original locations. The main entrance is under a simple hood, located in the third position, while there is a rear door also under a simple hood supported by scroll brackets. The farmhouse has two large red brick chimney stacks. The frame includes moulded jowls on the main posts and stop-chamfered bridging joists. The roof is constructed with side purlins and collars, all from the same period. Inside, there is a significant number of original three-plank doors with their ironmongery still in place.

Local climate

Boars Tye 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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