Gold Rill and Rotten End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 4 related planning applications.

Gold Rill and Rotten End Farmhouse

WRENN ID
little-rafter-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House
Address
Gold Rill and Rotten End Farmhouse, Wethersfield, CM7 4AL
OS grid reference
TL 730 294
Coordinates
51.93622, 0.51541
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gold Rill and Rotten End Farmhouse is a house that has been divided into two homes. It dates from the late 16th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main range has three bays and faces east, featuring a 18th or 19th-century axial stack and a 17th-century external stack at the left end. At the right end, there is a three-bay crosswing that extends forward, with a central stack from the 19th century and a stair extension from the 19th or 20th century at the front angle, along with a catslide roof from the crosswing. There are also 20th-century single-storey extensions at the left end.

The facade includes a five-window range of 20th-century casements, with one in the attic gable and another in a flat-roofed dormer. There are two 20th-century doors with shallow canopies and a hipped gablet at the left end. The building is two storeys high with attics. Inside, there are jowled posts, close studding with interior 'Suffolk' bracing, chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of horizontal section. The wallplates feature face-halved and bladed scarfs, and the roof has clasped purlins with arched wind-bracing. There is a framed stair trap in the left bay, which is blocked, and a fragment of a 4-centred doorhead in the partition between the two left bays. A 16th or 17th-century ledged door made of splay-rebated planks is found in the left bay, although it is not in its original position.

Additionally, there is a blocked original window in the rear wall of the right bay of the main range, which has two mullions moulded to an unusual profile, with mortices for saddle bars and grooves for sliding shutters, indicating early glazed windows. The building's plan is unusual, as there is pegging for an original partition between the middle and right bays of the main range, and on the first floor, there is no original partition between the two left bays. A solid tread stair leads to the attic of the crosswing.

Local climate

Gold Rill and Rotten End 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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