Helmons Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.
Helmons Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- mired-alcove-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Helmons Farmhouse, Helmons Lane, West Hanningfield, CM2 8UW
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 000
- Coordinates
- 51.67295, 0.50136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Helmons Farmhouse is an 18th-century house constructed from red and blue bricks. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a four-window arrangement on the south front, with casement windows that have glazing bars. The west front has a two-window arrangement with double-hung sash windows, also with glazing bars. The windows are set in stuccoed reveals, with stuccoed flat arches on the first storey and gauged brick flat arches on the ground storey. The doorway is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets. The roof is tiled and hipped, featuring a moulded wood eaves cornice and one hipped dormer on the west side.
Local climate
Helmons 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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