Great Meadowend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Farmhouse.
Great Meadowend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-jamb-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Great Meadowend Farmhouse, Ridgewell
- OS grid reference
- TL 745 400
- Coordinates
- 52.03125, 0.54331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Meadowend Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The main section of the house is aligned approximately north-south and features two axial chimney stacks on the eastern aspect. There is a crosswing to the south that has a central chimney stack. At the rear, there is a single-storey extension with a central chimney stack and a hipped roof. The house has two storeys.
The entrance features a 19th-century door set in a gabled porch, with both inner and outer doorways that have Tudor arches, also from the 19th century. The crosswing includes a two-storey splayed bay with 20th-century casement windows, while the main range has two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor. The plasterwork on the crosswing is marked in blocks to imitate stone. On the northern elevation, there is an 18th-century door with six fielded panels and an 18th-century window that consists of one wrought iron casement and two fixed lights in a hardwood frame, featuring rectangular leaded glazing.
Local climate
Great Meadowend 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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