Priory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

Priory Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fallen-gutter-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Priory Farmhouse, Sportmans Lane, Hatfield Peverel, CM3 2NW
OS grid reference
TL 798 104
Coordinates
51.76366, 0.60415
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priory Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with handmade red clay tiles. The main range, which faces southwest, consists of three bays and features an axial stack and an external stack at the left end. To the right, there is a two-bay crosswing. A single-storey lean-to extension is located at the left end. The main range has one storey with attics, while the crosswing has two storeys.

The building has a three-window range of 20th-century casements, including two in gabled dormers. There is a door on the left side of a 20th-century porch. Inside, the house features chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists with a vertical section. The jowled posts and some exposed studding are notable features. Diamond mortices in the rear wall suggest that some timber may have been reused rather than having unglazed windows originally.

The left side has a large wood-burning hearth with a re-used mantel beam from a timber-framed chimney, and walls made of 17th-century bricks that are 0.33 meters thick. On the right side, there is a smaller wood-burning hearth with internal brick splays and a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. A bread oven is present in the rebricked hearth at the left end, although its door is missing. Originally, there was a lobby entrance in front of the stack, but this doorway is now blocked.

Local climate

Priory 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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