Brookend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Brookend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- outer-eave-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brookend Farmhouse, Norton Heath Road, Willingale, CM5 0QF
- OS grid reference
- TL 615 058
- Coordinates
- 51.7284, 0.33784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brookend Farmhouse is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped by a hipped, nearly pyramid-shaped peg tile roof that features a central ridgeline stack. The building has two storeys and includes a peg tile-roofed lean-to at the west end, which was formerly a shop.
The front of the house has two 20th-century casement windows above a central door that is sheltered by an original lead hipped hood and porch, along with two similar casement windows. The timber frame is a box frame type, lacking jowls, and features halved and bladed scarf joists typical of the baffle-entry style. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace opening into the east room, and one old plank door with four star-shaped ventilator piercings.
Local climate
Brookend Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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