Blows Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Blows Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-screen-barley
- 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
- Blows Farmhouse, Roxwell, CM1 3SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 637 064
- Coordinates
- 51.73311, 0.3694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blows Farmhouse is an early 17th century timber-framed and plastered house, located in Roxwell Cooksmill Green. The house has been altered, particularly with 20th-century windows and a pebbledash render to the front. Despite these changes, the original form remains: it consists of gabled cross wings positioned at the north and south ends of the main section. The house is two storeys high with attics. It has a four-window frontage, featuring 20th-century casement windows. The roof is tiled, with a single 20th-century dormer window. An original external chimney stack is located at the south end, distinguished by two diagonal shafts.
Local climate
Blows 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 90% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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