Sparrows 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.
Sparrows
- WRENN ID
- spare-frieze-hawthorn
- 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
- Sparrows, Roman Road, Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding, CM5 0JL
- OS grid reference
- TL 567 108
- Coordinates
- 51.77453, 0.27085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sparrows is a house dating from the 14th century or earlier, with a later extension towards the road. It is timber framed and plastered, consisting of one storey and attics, with a lean-to on the southeast corner. The roof is thatched and gabled at both ends, featuring two ridge lines and red brick stacks. On the west side, there is one gabled dormer, while the east side has two eyebrow dormers and one gabled dormer. A modern pantiled lean-to porch is located on the west, and there is a modern leaded light casement window, one of which is bowed, on the south gable. The interior reveals remains of an open hall with wide stud spacings, compression braces, and a splayed scarf joint with vertical butts.
Local climate
Sparrows sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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