Potash Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1979. Cottage.
Potash Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-nave-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Potash Farmhouse, Felsted
- OS grid reference
- TL 689 195
- Coordinates
- 51.849, 0.45166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potash Farmhouse is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It has one storey and an attic, featuring a gabled dormer. The thatched roof extends to an enclosed gabled porch and a bay on the left side. The structure is timber framed and plastered, with a lean-to extension on the right. There are 20th-century four-range casement windows and a 20th-century board door. An attached diagonal chimney shaft completes the exterior.
Local climate
Potash Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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