Barn to North West of Sawkins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. Barn. 7 related planning applications.
Barn to North West of Sawkins Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-courtyard-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to North West of Sawkins Farmhouse, Mount End, Theydon Mount, CM16 7PS
- OS grid reference
- TL 487 007
- Coordinates
- 51.6858, 0.15007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A barn, dating from the 17th or 18th century, stands to the north-west of Sawkins Farmhouse. It is a timber-framed structure, clad in weatherboarding, and features a half-hipped red plain tiled roof. The roof extends forward over lean-to sections to the right and left of the central, hipped midstrey. A single-story forward extension, built of matching materials and with a hipped roof, is present on the right side. The barn roof is sprocketed at the front and employs a staggered side purlin construction. The barn comprises four bays with straight bracing to the tie beams and through bracing to the walls.
Local climate
Barn to North West of Sawkins 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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