Chambers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. A C16 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Chambers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-alcove-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chambers Farmhouse, the Street, Sheering, CM22 7LY
- OS grid reference
- TL 503 137
- Coordinates
- 51.80244, 0.17975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chambers Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring exposed framing only at the front, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building includes a three-bay crosswing that is aligned approximately northwest to southeast and jettied at the front but underbuilt. The remaining part of the hall house to the southwest was rebuilt in the 17th century and has a central chimney stack. There is a continuous northeast-southwest roof over the front part of the crosswing, creating a lobby-entrance house, and the rear part of the crosswing has been re-roofed. An external chimney stack is located at the northeast end.
In the southern angle, there is a stair tower from the 17th century, with a lean-to extension to the southwest of the stair tower, added in the 18th or 19th century, and a porch situated between it and the crosswing, which dates to the 19th century. The farmhouse has two storeys and features a two-window range of 19th and 20th-century casements. Inside, there are chamfered beams with step stops in the crosswing and lamb's tongue stops in the southwest section. The roof of the crosswing was originally constructed with crownposts but has been completely rebuilt above the tiebeam level to a clasped purlin construction. The stair to the attic retains an original 17th-century plain newel, handrail, and treads.
Local climate
Chambers 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 1 application
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