Luckinghouse Farm Oast House Approximately 8 Metres West of House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Oast house.
Luckinghouse Farm Oast House Approximately 8 Metres West of House
- WRENN ID
- steep-cellar-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Oast house
- OS grid reference
- TL 810 344
- Coordinates
- 51.97886, 0.63541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Luckinghouse Farm Oast House, located approximately 8 metres west of the main house, dates from around 1700 and is constructed of red brick. The building underwent a re-roofing in the late 19th century, now featuring a hipped roof clad in corrugated asbestos. It has a dentilled eaves cornice and a central band, with a weatherboarded gable. The oast house is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with the western bay serving as the drying room. The working and storage area has three bays and features heavy chamfered bridging joists on the first floor, as well as a side purlin roof construction.
The gable end has a vertically boarded door, while the ground floor includes two window openings. The first floor has a loft door and a louvred opening. Inside, there is a lifting hoist with an original chain attached to a collar above a trap door, and the floor is made of clay. The drying room contains a brick internal partition wall with a central firing arch and quarter arches, although the latter are now bricked up. The drying room also has a brick floor. Timber support beams are present at the first floor level, but the drying floor is missing. A square ventilator opening is framed in timber under the current roof structure, and there are four ventilator holes in the north and south walls. The interior brickwork features a scratched date reading "1855 MIN PCN." A hop yard was adjacent to the farmyard in the 19th century, and the building is believed to have been in use since 1870. This oast house is a rare survival in Essex.
Local climate
Luckinghouse Farm Oast House Approximately 8 Metres West of House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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