Grange Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Grange Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hushed-iron-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Grange Farmhouse, Great Canfield, CM6 1JZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 584 183
- Coordinates
- 51.8414, 0.29908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grange Farmhouse is an early 16th-century house that has been altered and extended around 1800. It features a timber-framed structure with a red brick facade on the main house, while other walls are plastered, and the roof is tiled. The building consists of four bays and has an original external chimney stack located near the middle of the rear wall, along with another chimney stack at the northwest gable. There is a single-storey extension at the southeast end, which includes a chimney stack in the southeast gable.
The farmhouse is two storeys tall, with the brick facade on the main house laid in Flemish bond, adorned with dentils at the eaves and shallow brick arches above the windows. On the ground floor, there are three sash windows from around 1800, each featuring a central light with double-hung 16-pane sashes and marginal lights with double-hung 2-pane sashes, many of which contain crown glass, including one with a bullseye. The porch is supported by slender Doric columns and dates from around 1800. The first floor has four 19th-century casement windows. Above the door, there are moulded red tiles set into the brickwork.
The extension is a single storey with an attic, plastered, and includes a plain door with an early 19th-century hood, a 20th-century casement window, and a flat-roofed dormer with a 20th-century casement window. Inside, an axial ceiling beam with double ogee mouldings is visible in one bay, although it is boxed in elsewhere, and no other framing is exposed. The crownpost roof is nearly complete in the middle bays, with some rebuilding in the end bays. The central crownpost is rectangular in section, with chamfered arrises and broach stops at the top and bottom, and features two curved axial braces to the collar-purlin, inscribed with the numbers IIII and V. Originally, the house likely had a continuous jetty at the front, but this has been underbuilt, with evidence concealed by the brick facade and interior plaster. The farmhouse was originally of high quality and has only undergone one phase of alteration.
Local climate
Grange 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- 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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