Watton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. House. 3 related planning applications.
Watton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-iron-fern
- 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
- Watton Farmhouse, Horseman Side, Navestock, CM14 5SU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 531 952
- Coordinates
- 51.63486, 0.21115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watton Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century and late 18th to early 19th century. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with the ground floor constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond. The roof is covered in peg tiles. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a three-window range with sash windows that have glazing bars. The central doorway is topped with a 20th-century flat canopy supported by slender square pillars. The door itself has six panels, with the upper panels being glazed, and is flanked by crudely reeded pilasters.
Inside, the house is arranged in two cells with a central passage and staircase. The binding and bridging joists indicate that this layout is original, although the partitioning has been renewed. At the rear of the west bay, there is a large lateral stack with a cooking hearth on the ground floor and a fireplace in the chamber above. The west side has a more recent stack, and 20th-century outshuts have been added at the back.
Local climate
Watton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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