Lawns is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. House.

Lawns

WRENN ID
outer-lantern-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1952
Type
House
Address
Lawns, Romford Road, Stanford Rivers
OS grid reference
TQ 523 988
Coordinates
51.66739, 0.20211
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lawns is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It is timber framed and rough rendered, featuring gabled and jettied crosswings on both the right and left sides. The building has two storeys and an original window arrangement of five lights with transoms on foliated brackets, with the central window consisting of three lights. The entrance includes a central plank and muntin door flanked by transomed side lights on foliated brackets. A prominent central red brick chimney stack has six tall octagonal shafts, and there is another matching chimney with three shafts to the left. The original barge boards are present on the gables.

Inside, the house features stop-chamfered bridging joists and beams in the main frame. There are some notable late 17th-century mouldings in the rear room, along with a contemporary corner cupboard and a moulded fire surround. An ovolo mullion window is also present. The house includes 18th-century doors and various details from a facelift around 1820 to 1830, which includes an office extension at the rear with a three-light window, doors, and a brick cellar, as well as vertical bead boarding in one room. The ground floor has brick floors, while the first floor retains large original floorboards.

Local climate

Lawns 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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