Pudneys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House.

Pudneys Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tattered-landing-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Pudneys Farmhouse, Shalford Road, Rayne
OS grid reference
TL 710 262
Coordinates
51.90837, 0.48586
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pudneys Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th to 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The building features a central red brick chimney on a gabled crosswing and an external chimney stack on the left range. The house has two storeys and a three-window range, primarily consisting of 19th-century three-light vertically sliding sashes, with a small paned vertically sliding sash in the centre of the first floor. A central gabled porch is covered with grey slate and has glazed margins on the top light of the door. Inside, notable features include a restored inglenook fireplace with a mantel beam, likely back to back, with the rear now infilled with a 20th-century surround. There are two 16th-century chamfered brick fireplaces with four-centred heads on the first floor, jowled storey posts in the crosswing, stop-chamfered bridging joists, and exposed wall studding in some rooms. An original ledged door is also present.

Local climate

Pudneys 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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