Burnt House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Farmhouse.
Burnt House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-slate-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Burnt House Farmhouse, Elder Street, Wimbish
- OS grid reference
- TL 575 345
- Coordinates
- 51.98674, 0.29306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burnt House Farmhouse is a building that features a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered wing alongside an 18th-century red brick block at the southeast end. Both sections are two stories tall, although the 17th-century wing has a lower eaves level. The wing includes modern casement windows and a tiled roof that is hipped at the northwest end. The 18th-century block has a two-window range of double-hung sashes with glazing bars and a modern gabled central porch. Its roof is tiled, with a mansard design that is hipped at the southeast end and half hipped at the northwest end, topped with a central square chimney stack.
Local climate
Burnt House 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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