Little Weald Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Little Weald Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- odd-bastion-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Weald Hall Farmhouse, Rayley Lane, North Weald Bassett, CM16 6AR
- OS grid reference
- TL 494 057
- Coordinates
- 51.73099, 0.16206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Weald Hall Farmhouse is a 17th-century lobby-entrance house that has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and roughcast rendered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of four bays arranged approximately east-west, with a southern aspect. An external chimney stack is located at the west end, and there is an axial chimney stack in the second bay from the east, which creates the lobby entrance. A stair tower is situated at the rear of this same bay.
At the rear, there are gabled wings on each end, and an extension with a catslide roof is positioned between the east wing and the stair tower. There is also a two-storey flat-roofed extension from the 20th century between the west wing and the stair tower, as well as a single-storey flat-roofed extension from the 20th century between the ends of the rear wings, which creates a straight rear elevation at ground floor level.
The front features a two-storey tiled gabled porch from the 20th century, which includes a six-panel door and a range of three 20th-century casement windows. The axial stack has grouped diagonal shafts that have been reduced in height, while the west stack is original for approximately 1.5 metres from the base and has been rebuilt above that point.
Local climate
Little Weald Hall 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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