Fitzjohns is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1967. House.
Fitzjohns
- WRENN ID
- gentle-spire-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fitzjohns, Great Canfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 582 182
- Coordinates
- 51.84052, 0.29547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fitzjohns is a building that originated as part of an early 16th-century house, which has been extended and altered in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure features a combination of timber framing and plaster, as well as brick and plaster, with a tiled roof. The oldest section is located at the southern end of the building, forming an L-shape, and shows signs of former crownpost roofs in both wings, suggesting it was once part of a larger house that has since been lost.
In the 18th century, the building was extended to the west to create a square plan, and further extended to the north in the 19th century. It has three external chimney stacks and is two storeys high with a hipped roof. The ground floor includes an inserted double garage, one sash window, and two bays, each with three sash windows made of 20th-century light alloy. The entrance features a six-panel door with a fanlight that has intersected tracery, and a Doric porch with engaged columns, topped with a broken pediment adorned with rosettes below the cornice, dating from the mid-18th century.
On the upper floor, there is a 20th-century casement window and a 19th-century sash window above the garage, along with a 19th-century sash window above the porch. To the left of the porch, there are two 20th-century light alloy sash windows, and to the right, a bay containing three 20th-century light alloy sash windows.
Local climate
Fitzjohns 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
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