Barnston Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Barnston Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- south-gutter-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Barnston Farmhouse, High Roothing, CM6 1NQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 615 178
- Coordinates
- 51.83568, 0.34391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barnston Farmhouse is a lobby-entrance farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with a single-storey rear extension added in the 18th century. The building is timber framed, with tile-hung upper walls and plastered lower walls, topped by a tiled roof. It has four bays, including a chimney bay with the lobby entrance and stair. The farmhouse is two storeys high and features a three-window range of 19th-century double-hung sashes and a 19th-century porch. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, there are stop-chamfered beams and a clasped purlin roof. The newel stair in the entrance lobby, which rises to the first floor and attics, appears to be original to the building, making it a fairly rare survival. There is also one incomplete 17th-century wrought iron casement window located in the rear of the middle ground floor room. The farmhouse is situated on a moated site.
Local climate
Barnston 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 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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