Widows Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Widows Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ghost-floor-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Widows Farmhouse, Stanford Rivers, CM5 9QR
OS grid reference
TL 527 024
Coordinates
51.70017, 0.20899
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Widows Farmhouse is a house with origins in the 16th century, featuring alterations from around 1840. The building is timber framed and clad in red brick, topped with a hipped grey slate roof. It has two storeys and a two-window range of 19th-century small paned vertical sliding sashes. The central entrance is marked by a boarded door, and there is a central red brick chimney stack. Inside, the farmhouse retains original back-to-back fireplaces and stop-chamfered beams. There is also an 18th-century corner cupboard and original 18th-century doors with ironmongery.

Local climate

Widows 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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