Rooks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
Rooks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-gargoyle-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rooks Farmhouse, Berden, CM23 1BB
- OS grid reference
- TL 475 294
- Coordinates
- 51.94357, 0.14505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rooks Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house featuring a cross wing at the east end. The building was altered in the 19th century and has two storeys with attics. It mainly has casement windows, along with some double-hung sashes that include glazing bars. The roofs are tiled, and there is a large square central chimney stack with square shafts. On the south side, there are two gables, one of which is small.
Local climate
Rooks 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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