Whitehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. House. 4 related planning applications.
Whitehouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sunken-postern-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitehouse Farmhouse, Horseman Side, Navestock, CM14 5ST
- OS grid reference
- TQ 544 960
- Coordinates
- 51.6422, 0.23077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitehouse Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, situated in Navestock, near Brentwood. It is timber-framed and now clad in 20th-century weatherboarding, with a half-hipped peg-tiled roof. The windows are 20th-century wooden casements with small panes. A central stack rises behind the apex of the roof, and a gabled porch with a glazed door has been added in the 20th century. The house has a rectangular plan, incorporating a two-bay cross-wing to the west. Soot marks indicate that the house originally adjoined an open hall to the east side, which was replaced in the 17th century by a two-bay block. This new block features exposed ceiling joists flanking a central chimney bay containing the stack. Inside, the timber frame includes cambered tie-beams, a clasped side purlin, and a queen post roof. An upper chamber contains a fireplace with a depressed four-centred arch. There's extensive reuse of original timber, notably a moulded bressumer from the cross-wing which has been reversed.
Local climate
Whitehouse Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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
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