Downhall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1984. House.
Downhall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-sentry-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downhall Farmhouse, Low Hill, Roydon
- OS grid reference
- TL 400 087
- Coordinates
- 51.76, 0.0285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downhall Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600. It has a timber frame and is plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and an L-shaped plan. It features a three-window range with 19th-century leaded cast iron casements. The doorway is framed by a simple doorcase with a flat hood. There are red brick chimney stacks. Inside, the original timber frame is exposed, showcasing halved and bladed scarf joists, along with a side purlin roof that includes re-used sooted rafters.
Local climate
Downhall Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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