Gowers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Farmhouse.
Gowers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- endless-quoin-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Gowers Farmhouse, High Roothing
- OS grid reference
- TL 605 179
- Coordinates
- 51.83752, 0.32963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gowers Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse built of brick, with plaster on the front elevation only, and a tiled roof. The building is designed in an L-shape and features one axial internal chimney as well as one chimney in each gable. There is a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension at the angle of the L. The farmhouse has two storeys and includes three 19th-century cast iron casement windows and one 20th-century wooden casement window on each floor. A gabled porch is also present.
Local climate
Gowers 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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