Holly Oak Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1983. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Holly Oak Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- watchful-rotunda-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Holly Oak Farmhouse, Thaxted, CM6 3PZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 626 306
- Coordinates
- 51.95035, 0.36537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Oak Farmhouse, formerly known as 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, with a lower roof level at the north end. The windows are a range of 18th-century double hung vertical sliding sashes that feature glazing bars. There are red brick chimney stacks present on the structure.
Local climate
Holly Oak 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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