Kitchen, Now Garage Approximately 10 Metres North West of Hancocks is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1989. Garage, kitchen.

Kitchen, Now Garage Approximately 10 Metres North West of Hancocks

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1989
Type
Garage, kitchen
OS grid reference
TL 537 069
Coordinates
51.74012, 0.22519
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a detached kitchen, now used as a garage, located approximately 10 metres northwest of Hancocks. It dates back to the 16th century and features a render over a timber frame with a gabled old tile roof. The structure is one storey high and consists of three bays. There are two sets of 20th-century double doors on the exterior.

Inside, the kitchen showcases three bays of high-quality timber framing with internal wall bracing. It has jowled posts that are braced to tie beams, supporting a clasped purlin roof with curved wind braces. The end bay is floored, while the two central bays were originally open to the roof and show significant soot-blackening along with steeply-raking braces to the central tie beam.

There are substantial remains of diamond-mullioned windows and the original entrance door, along with a replacement moulded window in the south gable. The soot patterns and the arrangement of openings suggest the presence of some form of fire hood, which is off-centre in one bay. This building is a remarkably complete example of a "medieval type" detached kitchen, associated with a late medieval hall house known as Hancocks.

Local climate

Kitchen, Now Garage Approximately 10 Metres North West of Hancocks 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 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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