Sion House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1967. A C18 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Sion House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solemn-tracery-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Sion House Farmhouse, Birchanger Lane, CM23 5PU
OS grid reference
TL 505 235
Coordinates
51.88975, 0.18558
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sion House Farmhouse is an 18th-century building designed in an L-shaped plan. It features a red brick front on the west side and a timber-framed and plastered wing extending to the east at the rear. Both the front block and the wing have parapets. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and a sub-basement on the west front. The west front has five windows, while the east wing has three windows, all fitted with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars. Raised bands run across the front above the first-storey windows and between the storeys. A late 19th-century or early 20th-century glazed porch projects from the center of the west front, which is accessed by a long flight of stone steps with wrought iron railings. The east wing features a central doorway flanked by plain Tuscan columns and topped with a modillion cornice. The roofs are tiled, with a double pitch on the east wing and three flat-headed dormers on the north front. The east wing is likely the original part of the house, to which the west block was added.

Local climate

Sion House 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • 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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