Hunt's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Farmhouse.
Hunt's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-belfry-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hunt's Farmhouse, Heath Road, South Hanningfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 702 958
- Coordinates
- 51.63591, 0.45908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunt's Farmhouse is a 17th-century house that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, finished with roughcast. The building is designed in an L-shaped plan, with a weatherboarded wing at the rear. It has two storeys, and the north front displays three windows. The windows on the first storey are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, while the ground storey has three-light casements. A central doorway is topped with a cornice hood supported by brackets. The roof is tiled and includes an original chimney stack.
Local climate
Hunt's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% 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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