Ruses Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Ruses Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-gallery-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ruses Farmhouse, High Street, Hempstead, CB10 2PW
- OS grid reference
- TL 646 391
- Coordinates
- 52.02621, 0.39909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruses Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed house with plaster infill, built on an L-shaped plan. It has a gable at the south-east end of the north-east front. The building is partly two storeys high and partly one storey with attics. Most windows are casement windows from the 20th century. The roof is tiled, featuring one gabled dormer window on the south-east front and a central chimney stack.
Local climate
Ruses Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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