Ball's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A C15 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Ball's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-merlon-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ball's Farmhouse, Larks Lane, Great Waltham, CM3 1AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 699 124
- Coordinates
- 51.78514, 0.46184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ball's Farmhouse is a building originally constructed as a 15th-century hall house, featuring cross wings at both the east and west ends. It has undergone alterations in the 17th century and later. The front of the farmhouse is faced in red brick and it stands two storeys high. There is a four-window range, with double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars in the ground storey and vertical glazing bars in the first storey. The entrance features a six-panel door topped with an open pediment supported by console brackets. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
Ball'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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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