Rolfes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. A C19 Farmhouse.
Rolfes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-latch-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rolfes Farmhouse, High Easter
- OS grid reference
- TL 647 158
- Coordinates
- 51.81669, 0.38851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rolfes Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 14th century and early 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with slate roofs. Originally an aisled hall, it now stands at two storeys with crosswings at each end, the southern crosswing being a 20th-century extension. The south crosswing features a low pitched gable, while the north crosswing has a hipped roof covered in red hip tiles and displays an exposed jetty supported by two original jetty brackets. The front of the farmhouse includes a 20th-century gabled porch with a slate roof. The windows in the older part of the building are double hung sashes with marginal glazing bars and moulded surrounds, while the new extension has 20th-century small pane casements. There is a small, off-centre stack at the ridgeline and a longer stack on the rear wall. The former 14th-century aisled hall retains significant parts of its major truss to the north of the current cross passage. The wing contains remnants of a heavy crown post roof and centre tenoned floor joists.
Local climate
Rolfes 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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