Lorkins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1960. A C15 Farmhouse.
Lorkins Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- little-hearth-oak
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lorkins Farmhouse, Conways Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 645 838
- Coordinates
- 51.52942, 0.37145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lorkins Farmhouse is a 15th-century house that is timber framed and plastered, featuring a red plain tile roof that is hipped at the east end. The building has two storeys and includes a jettied and gabled crosswing at the west end. There are three windows, which consist of 19th-century and modern casements, along with two gabled dormers. The first-floor gable of the crosswing displays exposed timber framing. A modern gabled porch, also with a red plain tile roof, has been added. The farmhouse has red brick chimney stacks that date from the 17th century and later.
Local climate
Lorkins Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings