Flint Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1985. A C18 Farmhouse.
Flint Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- low-copper-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Flint Farmhouse, Eldernell Lane, Whittlesey
- OS grid reference
- TL 319 987
- Coordinates
- 52.57026, -0.05425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flint Farmhouse is a house with several building periods, primarily dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with an extension added in the late 18th century. The original structure is timber framed and rendered, with the roof raised in the late 18th century when a parlour wing was added. It features a steeply pitched thatched roof, which is now covered with corrugated iron, and a ridge stack made of yellow gault brick. The house has a three-bay, lobby entry plan and is now two storeys high. There are two 19th-century windows on the first floor and two canted bays on either side of the doorway leading to the lobby entry.
At the rear, there is a framed and rendered 18th-century addition, possibly a wash house, which has a thatched, steeply pitched roof with a later end stack and is one storey with an attic. The late 18th-century parlour wing incorporates the left-hand bay of the original house, constructed of gault brick in Flemish bond that partly cases the original house. This wing has a hipped roof at the front and is two storeys high, with segmental arches over two windows. In the 19th century, a single kitchen range was added to the right side of the original house, made of brick and thatched.
Inside, some of the panelling from the mid to late 18th-century house remains in place, along with a mid-19th-century open-string staircase featuring column balusters and a moulded rail. The original wall plate and later wall facing from the late 18th-century roof raise are exposed in part. The 19th-century kitchen wing retains its original oven and copper.
Local climate
Flint Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings