Fore Riders is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1975. House.
Fore Riders
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-bastion-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fore Riders, Old Nevendon Road, Wickford, SS12 0QD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 736 911
- Coordinates
- 51.59279, 0.50555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fore Riders is a small 16th century timber-framed house that has been altered in the 18th century and later. The exterior is now covered with weatherboarding. The building features a jettied upper storey at the south end and stands two storeys high. It has casement windows with lattice leaded lights from the 20th century, and the roof is tiled. Inside, the house showcases exposed timber-framing. Additionally, there are remains of a moat nearby.
Local climate
Fore Riders 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
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