Rails Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1983. House. 11 related planning applications.
Rails Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- haunted-wattle-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rails Farmhouse, Bolford Street, Thaxted, CM6 2PY
- OS grid reference
- TL 609 309
- Coordinates
- 51.95416, 0.34081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rails Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a gabled cross-wing at the east end. The front has a range of two windows above and one window below, all of which are double hung vertical sliding sashes. There is also a gabled wing at the rear. The exterior includes modern pargetted plasterwork.
Local climate
Rails Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- 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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