Wakerings Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1952. Farmhouse. 8 related planning applications.
Wakerings Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- white-solder-thyme
- 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
- Wakerings Farmhouse, Wakerings Farm Road, Great and Little Leighs, CM3 3NH
- OS grid reference
- TL 734 144
- Coordinates
- 51.80218, 0.51432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wakerings Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, built on an L-shaped plan with wings extending to the north-east and south-east. The southwest portion of the north-east wing is of 15th-century origin with a 16th-century extension, while the south-east wing is 17th century, but was refaced on its southwest side in the early 19th century with brick, featuring a low parapet with a moulded string course. The house has two storeys and a three-window range of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, set in plain reveals and topped with stuccoed lintels and square hood moulds with ornamented label stops. A prominent moulded stucco band runs between the heads of the ground floor windows and the sills of the first floor windows. A 20th-century gabled brick porch is present. The interior features a bressumer beam on the upper storey that formerly was jettied. The roofs are tiled.
Local climate
Wakerings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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