Manwood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Manwood Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-glass-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manwood Farmhouse, Sparrows Lane, Hatfield Heath, CM17 0RP
- OS grid reference
- TL 546 124
- Coordinates
- 51.78955, 0.24138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manwood Farmhouse, formerly known as Manwood Green Farmhouse, is a house that dates back to around 1620. It was originally a farmhouse and features a timber frame with plaster and gabled peg tile roofs. The building has two storeys with attics, along with a one-storey gabled block at the east end and a three-storey stair tower at the west end of the rear elevation. Between these two sections is a lean-to with a catslide roof. The layout follows a baffle-entry plan, with an off-centre ridgeline and a contemporary diagonal shafted stack positioned over the former front door.
The south front displays three flush gables, with 20th-century leaded light casements. The middle gable has an older iron leaded light casement. The rear of the house features 20th-century casement windows with small panes. Inside, the typical three-bay house reveals its timber frame, showcasing halved and bladed scarf joints, square joists, and stop-chamfered spine beams. There are large back-to-back inglenook fireplaces in both the hall and parlour.
Local climate
Manwood 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 95% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 6 transactions since 2004
- 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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