Ratsborough Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. House.
Ratsborough Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-pillar-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ratsborough Farmhouse, Burnham Road, Southminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 954 985
- Coordinates
- 51.65156, 0.82454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ratsborough Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 15th and 16th centuries for the rear wings, with an 18th-century front range and 19th-century facing. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a red brick facing on the front range, which has a half hipped red plain tiled roof and a stone canopy to the parapet. There is an off-centre left red brick chimney stack. The house is two storeys tall with attics and has a four-window range of early 20th-century casements. The 18th-century door surround includes half-rounded columns, a moulded semi-circular arch, a moulded frieze, and reveal panels.
Inside, there are moulded surrounds to six-panelled doors, two 18th-century fire surrounds with moulded panelling above, and panelled cupboards. The interior also features a moulded cornice, moulded skirtings and dados, and moulded segmental arches to alcoves. Some doors have H and L hinges, and there is a six-panelled kitchen door with a moulded surround. The original rear wings include heavy chamfered bridging joists and flat ceiling beams, with a later applied jowl to the storey post and some exposed wall studs.
Local climate
Ratsborough Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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