Shonks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1975. Farmhouse. 10 related planning applications.
Shonks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-pilaster-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Shonks Farmhouse, Mill Street, North Weald Bassett, CM17 9JQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 488 078
- Coordinates
- 51.74995, 0.15486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shanks Farmhouse is a lobby-entrance house dating from the 17th century. It is timber framed and has been clad in weatherboarding, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house originally comprised three bays aligned roughly northwest-southeast, featuring an axial chimney stack in the central bay, creating a lobby-entrance layout. A rear wing extends from the southeastern bay, forming an L-shaped plan. The main house is two storeys high, while the rear wing is single-storey with an attic. A 20th-century tiled gabled porch shelters the front door. The front façade has two windows, which are 20th-century casements. The chimney stack is characterised by grouped diagonal shafts and provides a symmetrical appearance to the front elevation. A rear wing extends from the SE bay, forming an L plan. The property was formerly within the parish of Harlow and is documented in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments' records (RCHM) reference 20.
Local climate
Shonks 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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