Potash Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. A Medieval House.
Potash Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-lantern-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Potash Farmhouse, Felsted
- OS grid reference
- TL 686 196
- Coordinates
- 51.85043, 0.4465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potash Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It is two storeys tall and has an H-shaped plan. The roof is covered with red tiles. There is a single-storey extension on the front left wing and a hipped porch on the left wing. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring two gabled dormers on the central range. The windows are a mix of plain and small-paned casements. The entrance has a boarded door, and there are three red brick chimney stacks. The right wing has barge boards with a pendant.
Local climate
Potash 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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