Crabb's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. A C17 House.
Crabb's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-barrel-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crabb's Farmhouse, Mill Street, North Weald Bassett, CM17 9JE
- OS grid reference
- TL 483 086
- Coordinates
- 51.75692, 0.14823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crabb's Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier, with extensions made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame, primarily plastered, with some areas of weatherboarding, and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The main part of the house is a hall range, single storey with attics, consisting of two bays aligned approximately northwest to southeast, and has an axial chimney stack located southeast of the center. At the southeast end, there is a two-storey crosswing. A 19th-century lean-to extension is located at the northwest end, which is roofed with red clay pantiles. Additionally, there is a 20th-century range that runs parallel to the hall range on its northeast side.
On the southwest elevation, there is a plain boarded door in the lean-to extension, a 20th-century door in a tiled lean-to porch, one 20th-century casement window, and one 20th-century bay window with leaded casements. On the first floor, there is one 20th-century leaded casement window in a hipped dormer and one 20th-century casement window in the crosswing. Access to the property is limited. Inside the crosswing, there are jowled corner posts and heavy studding, with tension braces to the corner posts at first floor level only, featuring reversed curvature inside the studding. The joists are unchamfered and have a vertical section.
Local climate
Crabb's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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