Little Myles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. House. 1 related planning application.

Little Myles Farmhouse

WRENN ID
shadowed-gutter-umber
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
Little Myles Farmhouse, Ongar Road, Stondon Massey
OS grid reference
TL 568 016
Coordinates
51.6915, 0.26717
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Myles Farmhouse is a house dating back to around 1500, with significant alterations in approximately 1560, the 17th century, around 1800, and the 20th century. It is primarily timber-framed, with rendered and pebble-dashed walls, brick sections, and a peg-tiled roof. The house has a T-shaped layout.

The north front has four window bays. The windows are mostly 20th-century replacements, except for one from around 1800, with sash windows and a 3x4 pane design. The ground floor features two 20th-century sash windows, a 19th-century front door within a 20th-century boarded frame, and a porch with a Chinese fretwork design. The original wood front panels remain, with 20th-century restoration to the side panels, and a sheet metal canopy topped with a carved wooden gripping hand. A single 20th-century casement window (4x3 panes) is also present. An additional unit to the east features a large 20th-century casement window. The first floor mirrors the ground floor with two 20th-century sashes and one sash window from around 1800. The roof has a half-hipped section at the west end and a full hip at the east. There are two brick chimney stacks, likely rebuilt in the 19th century.

The south rear elevation is complex. The main range on the west has a stair tower projecting in front of a western chimney stack. To the east are two gabled projections. The easternmost unit is lower and visible on the front elevation. The ground floor on the south side includes a 20th-century casement window, a 20th-century boarded door with a simple lean-to hood, a stair tower with a 19th-century sash window, French doors with semicircular tops and iron frames, a 19th-century boarded door, and a 20th-century stable-style boarded door alongside a casement window. The first floor is similarly punctuated with casement windows and a stair tower. A 19th-century stack and remnants of a bread oven sit on the south gable end of the T-wing extension.

The interior shows a complex development spanning several phases. Initially, around 1500, it was a two-storey timber-framed building with an open hall and a decorated post. A 1560 floor addition incorporated flat-laid joists with haunched tenons. The 17th century saw the addition of a timber-framed range to the north, east, and west, encapsulating older parts and including a stair tower. A lower unit to the east, dating from the 17th century, has joists with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Around 1800, a timber-framed extension was built to the south of the original wing, including a fireplace and bread oven. A 20th-century restoration phase completed the building's evolution.

Local climate

Little Myles Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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