Hobbans Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Farmhouse.

Hobbans Farmhouse

WRENN ID
silver-ember-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hobbans Farmhouse, Stony Lane, Bobbingworth
OS grid reference
TL 528 057
Coordinates
51.73001, 0.21252
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hobbans Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with a 15th or 16th century wing at the rear right. It features a timber frame, with pargetted plaster on the ground floor and weatherboard on the first floor. The roof is hipped and covered with red plain tiles. The building has two storeys, with a three-window range of 19th century small paned casements on the first floor and two 20th century casements on the ground floor. Original 17th century leaded windows can be found at the rear.

The farmhouse has a central gabled porch with a tiled roof, which contains a 20th century door with small paned lights. A central chimney stack made of red and gault brick features an original red brick back-to-back fireplace; one side has a brick Tudor arch, while the other has a mantel beam and remnants of an inserted oven. There are matching fireplaces on the first floor. The front range consists of two bays and a smoke bay, supported by jowled storey posts and stop-chamfered beams, and includes two mullion windows. The rear range has collars on every rafter pair, although the crown post is not visible. The floor is laid with red brick in a herringbone pattern.

Local climate

Hobbans Farmhouse 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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