Rylands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Rylands Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- haunted-sandstone-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rylands Farmhouse, Blois Road, Steeple Bumpstead, CB9 7BW
- OS grid reference
- TL 696 420
- Coordinates
- 52.0507, 0.47331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rylands Farmhouse is an 18th-century house located on Blois Road, Steeplestone Bumpstead. It is timber-framed with plastered walls and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house comprises two ranges, aligned north-east to south-west, facing northwest, with two end chimney stacks on the front range and a north-east end stack on the rear range. A single-storey wing extends from the north-east end. The house has two storeys. The front features a six-panel door with the upper four panels glazed, set within a simple doorcase including bracketed hood, dating to the 18th century. There are two double-hung sash windows of 16 lights on the ground floor, also from the 18th century. The first floor has two further windows, and one of 12 lights, from the 18th century, with some crown glass present.
Local climate
Rylands Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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