Hales Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Hales Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-lancet-summer
- 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
- Hales Farmhouse, Nether Street, Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding, CM5 0JT
- OS grid reference
- TL 582 120
- Coordinates
- 51.78452, 0.29293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hales Farmhouse is a late 16th century timber-framed and plastered house, standing two stories tall. It features a gabled peg tile roof and a slated lean-to at the rear. The farmhouse has an in-line transitional plan consisting of four bays, which includes a wide cross-passage or smoke bay and the hall, originally part-floored. The front elevation has a modern gabled porch with a peg tile roof that fronts the entrance door, which is in its original off-centre position. The windows are mainly 19th century wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars. There is a 17th century stack that has been rebuilt above the roof and an altered stack at the south end. Remnants of service door jambs and heads can be seen, along with a diamond mullioned window. The roof structure includes side purlins with curved wind-bracing and halved and bladed scarf joints in the top plate.
Local climate
Hales Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 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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