Tan Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. A Medieval House. 8 related planning applications.
Tan Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-gable-rye
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Tan Farmhouse, Mill Lane, Stebbing, CM6 3SN
- OS grid reference
- TL 659 241
- Coordinates
- 51.89095, 0.41078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tan Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 15th century, with an addition to the front on the road side built in the 17th century. The house is in the shape of an 'L'. It has a timber frame construction with plaster filling the gaps between the timbers, and red tiled roofs, with a half-hip and gablet design on the right-hand side. It is two storeys high and has four windows with 20th-century diamond-leaded casements. A 20th-century plank and muntin door with a side light provides access. The top plates have a halved and bridled scarf joint.
The rear wing, dating back to the 15th century, features a two-storey jettied porch on the north side and a six-light mullion window. The south face includes a single-story gabled porch with original 17th-century turned balusters, a five-light mullion window, and a long wall jetty. This section, originally built around 1450, initially had two jetties; the southern one was filled in, and the northern one reduced in width around 1600, when a back-to-back chimney was inserted diagonally. There is also an octagonal chimney with two original fireplaces dating to the mid-17th century. A number of original doors from the early 18th century remain, and the brick floors have been restored. The roofs are of a two-arm crownpost construction. One room has moulded ceiling joists, while others have stop-chamfered beams, some with inverted chamfers.
Local climate
Tan Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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 — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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