Bush House is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1960. House.
Bush House
- WRENN ID
- tall-corridor-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bush House, Rookery Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 709 833
- Coordinates
- 51.52347, 0.46243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bush House is a 16th-century house, which may have an earlier south crosswing. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has an H-plan layout, featuring gabled crosswings. The front has three window ranges with double-hung vertical sliding sashes. On the ground floor, there are casement windows and a three-sided bay with a flat roof. Red brick chimney stacks are also present.
Local climate
Bush House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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