Old Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1983. House. 1 related planning application.

Old Bank House

WRENN ID
scattered-lime-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brentwood
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1983
Type
House
Address
Old Bank House, 56, High Street, Ingatestone and Fryerning, CM4 9DW
OS grid reference
TQ 651 996
Coordinates
51.67176, 0.38665
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Bank House is a house, now used as offices and a shop, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, with alterations from the 19th century. The building is timber-framed, with plastered, roughcast, and weatherboarded exterior, and roofs covered in both machine-made and handmade red brick tiles. It consists of a main range facing southeast, an 18th-century wing beyond, and a rear wing which was formerly detached. A lean-to extension is also present. The building now forms an almost rectangular plan.

The right-hand section (No. 56) has a wide sash window with a segmental head on the ground floor, alongside a four-panel door with a segmental arch; the jambs and arches of both are rusticated in plaster. Above, there are two late 18th/early 19th century sashes with six panes each. A moulded plaster band runs at first-floor level, continuing around the right return. Rusticated plaster quoining is visible, with further rusticated plaster on the right return below the band. The left-hand section (No. 58) has a 20th-century sash and shop window on the ground floor, and three early 20th-century transomed and mullioned casements above. Rusticated plaster quoining appears on the left return, to first-floor level only. The front elevation is roughcast and painted, and the roof's front pitch is covered in machine-made tiles. The rear right wing of No. 56 has a late 18th/early 19th century sash window with six panes, while other rear windows are from the 19th and 20th centuries. The rear roofs of No. 56 are clad in handmade tiles. The left elevation of No. 58 is partly weatherboarded.

The interior of the main range is mainly plastered, with some exposed framing within the cross-walls. No. 56 contains a stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops, and plastered joists. No. 58 has a moulded beam, likely reused. The formerly detached ancillary building possesses close studding, end braces on the first floor of the northwest wall, a chamfered beam with plain joists, and a cambered tie-beam.

Local climate

Old Bank House 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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