Rolph's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Rolph's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-render-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rolph's Farmhouse, Boars Tye Road, Silver End, CM8 3PN
- OS grid reference
- TL 806 204
- Coordinates
- 51.85382, 0.6218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rolph’s Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on Boars Tye Road in Silver End. The house features a cross wing to the northwest, which is two storeys high, and a main block that is one storey with attics. It has a four-window front with double-hung sash windows featuring glazing bars, set within flush-cased frames. A central entrance has a six-panel door topped by an open pediment. The roof is tiled and includes three flat-headed dormers, and a 17th-century chimney stack with three diagonal shafts. The house was renovated during the 20th century.
Local climate
Rolph's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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