Lamarsh Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A Medieval House. 5 related planning applications.
Lamarsh Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ancient-gravel-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Lamarsh Hall Farmhouse, Henny Road, CO8 5EU
- OS grid reference
- TL 889 361
- Coordinates
- 51.99165, 0.75123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lamarsh Hall Farmhouse is a house dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, with extensions added in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring exposed framing on the front elevation and a roof covered with red clay tiles. The original structure consists of two bays facing south, built in the 14th century, with a 16th-century external chimney stack at the right end. To the right is a two-bay extension from the early 17th century, which includes an additional back-to-back chimney stack. There is also a late 16th-century rear extension from the original block, complete with an external chimney stack at the end.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has five 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor. The original two bays are jettied, showcasing exposed joists and 20th-century reproduction brackets. The main stack features grouped diagonal shafts. The entrance is located in the left return wall, accessed through a 20th-century porch that incorporates reused medieval and reproduction elements.
Inside, the original building contains high axial beams and exposed plain joists of horizontal section, all constructed from heavy materials. There is a rear doorway with a four-centred arched head. On the first floor, original rebated boards can be found, along with a rear doorway featuring a three-centred arched head and a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. The right extension includes a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section, a first-floor hearth with a depressed brick arch, and a clasped purlin roof with straight wind-bracing. The ground floor of the rear extension is adorned with 18th-century pine panelling.
Local climate
Lamarsh Hall Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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