Sumner's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1979. House.
Sumner's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hidden-lime-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sumner's Farmhouse, Parsloe Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 434 072
- Coordinates
- 51.74535, 0.07683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sumner's Farmhouse is a 17th-century house located on Parsloe Road. It is designed in an L-shape and has two storeys. The main wing consists of four bays, while the smaller wing has three bays, both of which are timber framed and plastered. The roofs are peg-tiled and gabled, with a hipped return.
On the main wing, there is a range of four sash windows on the first storey and three sash windows along with a front door that features a modern porch on the ground storey. The smaller wing has two sash windows on each storey. Each wing has a central chimney stack. At the rear of the main wing, there is a one-storey lean-to and two two-storey gables, which are adjacent to a parallel single-storey brick outbuilding.
Local climate
Sumner's 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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