Laceys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1983. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Laceys Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- outer-lime-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Laceys Farmhouse, Old Barn Lane, Rettendon, CM3 8HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 757 984
- Coordinates
- 51.6571, 0.53918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laceys Farmhouse is an early 18th century timber-framed farmhouse situated in Rettendon. The ground floor is weatherboarded, while the first floor is clad in clay tiles. The roof is tiled, with a tiled lean-to extension and two end-wall chimney stacks constructed of red brick. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics, featuring a two-window front with casement windows and a central door recessed within a 20th century hipped-roofed weather porch. The interior retains oak framing, floor joists, and chamfered bridging joists. The roof structure exhibits collars, side purlins, and straight bracing. One original planked door remains, with alternate boards that are chamfered.
Local climate
Laceys 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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