Skins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1950. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Skins Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- distant-keystone-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1950
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Skins Farmhouse, Roydon Road, CM19 5DU
- OS grid reference
- TL 421 101
- Coordinates
- 51.7721, 0.05814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Skins Farmhouse is an early 17th century house located on Roydon Road. It is a two-storey timber-framed building with roughcast rendering. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered in peg tiles, and features a red brick chimney stack with two diagonal shafts situated in the first bay from the western end. A two-storey gabled porch is placed before the chimney bay. The first storey has a total of eight casement windows, arranged in sets of varying numbers, while the ground storey windows are irregularly spaced.
Local climate
Skins Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- 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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