Woolpits Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1975. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Woolpits Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-flue-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Woolpits Farmhouse, Little Waltham Road, Springfield, CM1 7TG
- OS grid reference
- TL 717 100
- Coordinates
- 51.76235, 0.48734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolpits Farmhouse is an early 17th-century house that features a timber frame and plaster exterior, with cross wings at both the north and south ends. The building is two storeys high and has a five-window range, arranged in a pattern of one, one, and one. The windows are casement style, with some featuring lattice leaded lights and others having glazing bars. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
Woolpits 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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