Woodleys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.

Woodleys Farmhouse

WRENN ID
heavy-corbel-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Woodleys Farmhouse, Gainsford End, Toppesfield, CO9 4EJ
OS grid reference
TL 721 350
Coordinates
51.98708, 0.50592
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodleys Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in red clay tiles. The house has three bays aligned approximately northeast to southwest, facing southeast, and features an axial chimney stack in the middle bay. There is a single-storey extension from the 17th or 18th century at the rear of the northeast bay. The southwest extension, dating from the 18th century, is also single storey with attics and has an external chimney stack on the front wall, along with a single-storey extension at the rear that has been extensively modernised.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has two plain boarded doors, a tiled gabled porch, and a two-window range of 20th-century casements. Some weatherboarding is present on the southwest gable and the rear extension. Inside, the house features jowled posts, axial beams with lamb's tongue and bar stops, and exposed joists of horizontal section, some of which have been renewed. There is also some exposed framing, and two hearths that are largely original; the southwest hearth includes an oven door but no oven, while the northeast hearth has a curved interior with a renewed mantel beam.

Local climate

Woodleys 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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