Wells Tye Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wells Tye Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-cinder-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wells Tye Farmhouse, High Easter Road, Barnston, CM6 1ND
- OS grid reference
- TL 638 187
- Coordinates
- 51.84372, 0.37772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wells Tye Farmhouse is a 16th-century house featuring a jettied crosswing. It has two storeys and an attic, topped with a red plain tile roof and plain bargeboards on the gable of the crosswing. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a three-window range of small paned vertical sliding sashes. The front entrance includes a 19th-century recessed four-panel door with a light above, flanked by plain pilasters and topped with a flat canopy. At the rear of the house, there is a 19th-century pump with a handle and fluted head.
Local climate
Wells Tye 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- 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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