Plains Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. House, farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.

Plains Farmhouse

WRENN ID
final-sandstone-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Type
House, farmhouse
Address
Plains Farmhouse, Ipswich Road, Ardleigh, CO7 7QU
OS grid reference
TM 020 286
Coordinates
51.91965, 0.93728
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Plains Farmhouse is an early 17th-century house that was formerly a farmhouse. It features a timber frame with rendered surfaces and red brick, particularly on the gabled south wall and parts of the rear wall. The roof is gabled and covered in plain tiles. The building has two storeys with attics and includes extensive single-storey extensions.

At the front, there is a single-storey red brick brewhouse with a gabled plain tile roof and a gable end stack, which is attached to what was originally the rear elevation. A two-storey red brick extension from the 19th century is located at the present rear (east) side. The front (west) elevation showcases an off-centre rectangular ridge line stack and a gabled porch made of red brick, featuring an arched entrance and decorative bargeboards.

On the first floor, there are two 20-pane double-hung sash windows flanking a narrower double-hung sash window with a central vertical glazing bar. The ground floor mirrors this arrangement with a similar 20-pane double-hung sash window on either side of the porch. The brewhouse contains a mix of casement and sash windows.

The rear roof of the main block has two three-light 20th-century small-paned casement dormers with flat roofs, along with a two-light small-paned casement on the first floor and a small-paned sash and a tripartite small-paned double-hung sash on the ground floor. The rear extension features a collection of 19th-century small-paned casements and sash windows. Additionally, there are extensive 20th-century rear and side extensions with flat roofs.

Local climate

Plains Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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