Great Holts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1952. Farmhouse.
Great Holts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-tracery-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Great Holts Farmhouse, Waltham Road, Boreham
- OS grid reference
- TL 752 120
- Coordinates
- 51.77985, 0.53849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Holts Farmhouse is a 15th-century timber-framed house located on Waltham Road. It has undergone alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries and is finished with plaster. The building features a hall and a cross wing at the west end, which jetties out on the first storey at the front. The windows are casements, and the roof is tiled with one gabled dormer. At the time of the survey, the house was empty and in a dilapidated condition.
Local climate
Great Holts 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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