Farthings 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.
Farthings
- WRENN ID
- night-stronghold-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Farthings, 10, the Square, Stock, CM4 9LH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 690 989
- Coordinates
- 51.66361, 0.44345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farthings is an 18th-century building with a 16th-century timber-frame core. It is two storeys high with a five-window range on the ground floor and a two-window range on the first floor. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The roof is tiled. The interior features good moulded ceiling beams, some of which have carved ornamentation in the form of folded ribbon.
Local climate
Farthings 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 2015
- 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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