Fords Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Fords Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-trefoil-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fords Farmhouse, Hatfield Road, Langford, CM9 6QA
- OS grid reference
- TL 831 093
- Coordinates
- 51.75248, 0.65157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fords Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with red plain tiled roofs. On the left side, there is an external red brick chimney stack. The building is one storey with an attic on the left, featuring a gambrel roof and two catslide dormers. To the right, there is a taller gabled crosswing that has two storeys and an exposed frame on the first floor. The windows consist of a 2:1 range of various casements and horizontal sliding sashes. The entrance features a 20th-century plank and muntin door with a segmental head above and a round-headed sidelight to the left.
Local climate
Fords 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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