Ricketts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Farmhouse.
Ricketts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-kitchen-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ricketts Farmhouse, Rectory Lane, Ashdon
- OS grid reference
- TL 578 425
- Coordinates
- 52.05859, 0.30105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ricketts Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered house built around 1600, although it has undergone significant alterations. The northeast front features two gables; one at the northeast end projects forward and includes a modern bay on the ground floor, while the other has a two-storey canted bay. The front windows are double-hung sashes, and the rear has casement windows. The house is two storeys tall and has two original chimney stacks: one with grouped diagonal shafts and the other an external stack with two octagonal shafts. The roofs are tiled.
Local climate
Ricketts Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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