Lawns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1952. House.
Lawns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-newel-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lawns Farmhouse, Boreham Road, Great and Little Leighs
- OS grid reference
- TL 740 137
- Coordinates
- 51.79553, 0.52284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lawns Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered house made up of two blocks that are at right angles to each other. The southern block dates from the 16th century, while the western block is from the 17th century. The house has two storeys, and the upper storey of the west block jetties out over the south front. The windows in this block are casements, while the south block features 18th or early 19th century double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. There is a gabled porch with an original window above it. The roofs are tiled, and the south block has an original diagonally shafted central chimney stack. The west block has a half-hipped roof with a small gablet at its west end.
Local climate
Lawns 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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