Cistern House 50 Metres North East of Ingatestone Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Cistern house.
Cistern House 50 Metres North East of Ingatestone Hall
- WRENN ID
- gilded-banister-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- Cistern house
- OS grid reference
- TQ 654 985
- Coordinates
- 51.66169, 0.39128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cistern House, located 50 metres north-east of Ingatestone Hall, is a structure from the early 19th century or possibly earlier. It is built from red brick in English bond and features a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building is circular in shape and has a door on the north side, along with slatted gabled dormers on the east and west sides. The plain boarded door is set within a slatted gable. The conical roof is topped with an earthenware garden cloche at the apex.
Inside, the roof structure is made of oak and consists of eight panels, each featuring a curved butt-purlin. There are two tenoned rafters above each purlin and four tenoned rafters below each. Additionally, three empty mortices can be found in each alternate purlin in the four panels that have gables. A collar is tenoned and pegged between two opposite principal rafters. The cistern itself is approximately 1.5 metres deep. The carpentry is of high quality, making this a rare example of its type.
Local climate
Cistern House 50 Metres North East of Ingatestone Hall 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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