Blewgates Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Blewgates Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- seventh-rubblework-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blewgates Farmhouse, Rookery Road, High Ongar, CM4 0LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 595 035
- Coordinates
- 51.7082, 0.30784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blewgates Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a hipped roof made of red plain tiles. The building has two storeys and features a double range plan. The front has three windows that are early 20th-century casements with glazing bars. A porch supported by Tuscan columns has a flat canopy, and there is a rectangular fanlight above the door. The farmhouse also has red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Blewgates 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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