Frenches Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1985. House.

Frenches Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solemn-parapet-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 July 1985
Type
House
Address
Frenches Farmhouse, Little Bardfield
OS grid reference
TL 665 284
Coordinates
51.92997, 0.42026
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Frenches Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with a later extension on the right side. It is constructed with a timber frame and has plastered walls, topped with grey slate roofs. The building features a central chimney stack on the gabled left range and an end stack on the right. It has two storeys and a window arrangement of one window on the left and two windows on the right, all of which are small paned casements. A timber gable bressumer is present, and there is a 20th-century glazed porch to the right of the gable. Inside, bridging joists and through bracing to the walls are visible.

Local climate

Frenches 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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