Crondon Park is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1991. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Crondon Park
- WRENN ID
- upper-chalk-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Crondon Park, Crondon Park Lane, Stock, CM4 9DP
- OS grid reference
- TL 691 004
- Coordinates
- 51.67702, 0.44448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crondon Park is a farmhouse built in 1835, constructed of red brick in Flemish bond. It features a two-span hipped slate roof with lead rolled hips and ridge, along with deep eaves and brick axial stacks. The building has a double depth square plan with a central staircase located in the entrance hall, flanked by a drawing room on the left and a dining room on the right. At the back are service rooms, including a kitchen behind the dining room and a small two-storey scullery wing behind the kitchen.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window south front. It features later 19th or 20th century four-pane sash windows in the original openings, which are topped with flat rubbled brick arches. The central doorway has an original six-panel door with a rectangular overlight that includes glazing bars, panelled reveals, and pilasters. The portico has a heavy entablature and rebuilt columns. The east and west sides also have four-pane sashes, with the east side featuring a later bay window. The lower two-storey wing at the rear has 16-pane sashes and a 20th century porch in the right-hand angle.
Inside, the drawing and dining rooms are adorned with moulded plaster cornices and 20th century chimneypieces. Most of the original joinery remains intact, including an open well stick baluster staircase with a moulded mahogany handrail that is wreathed over curtail panelled doors. There is a hatch from the dining room to the kitchen/servant's hall behind, back stairs with stick balusters and a turned newel, and panelled window shutters. An arched niche is present on the landing, and some of the chamber chimneypieces have survived.
Local climate
Crondon Park 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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