Gifford's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Gifford's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-span-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gifford's Farmhouse, Warren Road, Rettendon, CM3 8DG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 749 968
- Coordinates
- 51.64354, 0.52751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gifford's Farmhouse is a 16th century timber-framed house, primarily covered in weatherboarding with some areas of plaster. It is designed in a T-shaped plan with a cross wing at the north end and stands two storeys high. The windows are 20th century casements. The upper storey of the cross wing features a jettied design on exposed beams, above a small original bay window with four lights and moulded mullions. At the north end of the house, there is a large projecting chimney stack made of red brick, which has two offsets. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
Gifford'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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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