The Ferns is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A C18 House.
The Ferns
- WRENN ID
- steep-tracery-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Ferns, the Street, Roxwell, CM1 4PD
- OS grid reference
- TL 646 085
- Coordinates
- 51.75117, 0.38372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ferns is a timber-framed and plastered house from the 18th century and later, standing two storeys tall with a range of four windows featuring casements. The ground floor includes a 19th-century brick bay window, a small 20th-century shop window, and two doorways that have hoods supported by shaped brackets. The roof is tiled. The Ferns is part of a group that includes Cherry Tree Cottages, The Chequers Inn, Broadgates, The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Nos 1 and 2 The Bishops, Cottage End, Burrells Cottage, Rose Cottage, Tighsee, and Willow Cottage.
Local climate
The Ferns 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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