Longbarns Farmhouse (Now 2 Residential Units) Including Outhouse Range and Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. House. 5 related planning applications.

Longbarns Farmhouse (Now 2 Residential Units) Including Outhouse Range and Garden Wall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1957
Type
House
Address
Longbarns Farmhouse (Now 2 Residential Units) Including Outhouse Range and Garden Wall, School Lane, Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding, CM5 0NX
OS grid reference
TL 578 108
Coordinates
51.77433, 0.28618
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Longbarns Farmhouse, now divided into two residential units, dates from the 15th century and 17th century. This two-storey farmhouse is timber framed and plastered, designed in an 'H' plan with a hall. It features gabled roofs covered with clay peg tiles. The exterior was remodeled around 1840, incorporating timber casements with single horizontal glazing bars and cornice drip moulds. The northwest wing has one square and one splayed 19th-century bay window, both with hipped tile roofs, along with a decorative gable and dormer.

On the northeast elevation, there is a two-storey 17th-century porch with a coved jetty soffit and a six-panel door framed by a moulded architrave. The southeast crosswing, which was originally jettied at both ends, consists of three bays supported by massive jowled posts and arch braces. There are large 19th-century red brick stacks, one positioned between the hall and the later crosswing with four diagonal shafts, and another near the earlier wing with three attached diagonal shafts. The two later 19th-century stacks on the southwest roof slope are square and feature pilaster strip ornamentation. The northwest crosswing gable retains original 17th-century bargeboards, and one first-floor post displays a decorative jowl.

Additionally, there is a single-storey outhouse range made of red brick located to the southeast, featuring a gabled peg tile roof and arched casement windows with a boiler stack. A garden wall from the 18th century encloses the northern and eastern sides of the garden.

Local climate

Longbarns Farmhouse (Now 2 Residential Units) Including Outhouse Range and Garden Wall 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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