The Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
The Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-soffit-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Elms Farmhouse, Matching, CM17 0PZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 534 110
- Coordinates
- 51.77674, 0.22332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elms Farmhouse is a 17th-century house, altered in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with roughcast rendering and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house is arranged with four bays aligned approximately northwest-southeast. There is an axial chimney stack in the second bay from the northwest, and external chimney stacks at each end of the building. A rear wing extends from the northwest bay, creating an L-shaped plan, with an internal chimney stack located near the southwest end. A single-storey extension with a hipped roof is situated at the southwest end. The house has two storeys. The front door has a single pane of glass and is sheltered by a bracketed hood, which is a 20th-century addition. Three 20th-century metal casement windows are on the ground floor, and four are on the first floor. The roof is half-hipped at both ends.
Local climate
The Elms 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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