Stapleford Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. Manor house. 3 related planning applications.

Stapleford Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
first-sentry-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1984
Type
Manor house
Address
Stapleford Hall Farmhouse, Stapleford Abbotts, RM4 1EJ
OS grid reference
TQ 505 954
Coordinates
51.63757, 0.17441
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stapleford Hall Farmhouse is a mid-17th century manor house that has been altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure with a roughcast exterior and a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with a main range of three bays running approximately north to south, and axial chimney stacks at each end. There is a crosswing at the south end that extends to the east. A lean-to porch is located at the angle of the L, with an additional lean-to porch further north on the east wall. There is also a single-storey lean-to extension at the north end. The farmhouse has two storeys with an attic.

On the west elevation, there is a glazed door set in a glazed tiled porch from the 20th century. The windows include two 19th-century casement windows, one 20th-century casement window, and one late 19th-century double-hung sash window with four lights. On the first floor, there is one late 19th-century double-hung sash window with four lights and one early 19th-century tripartite double-hung sash window with a configuration of four-16-4 lights. The base wall is made of yellow brick from the late 19th century, with roughcast rendered above.

Inside, there are exposed beams above the ground and first floors that are plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Above the north ground-floor room, the exposed joists are of a deep section and unchamfered, while elsewhere, the joists are plastered to the soffits. Some framing is exposed in the partition walls. The roof is of butt purlin construction and includes one re-used roll-moulded timber from the early 16th century. A complete 17th-century window located internally lights the first-floor corridor; it has a hardwood frame, wrought iron saddle bars, diamond glazing with muff glass, and leading. There is an 18th-century back stair and plain panelling that rises directly from the kitchen to the attic, in addition to the main stair. The 19th-century alterations include brick base walls, some floors, and windows.

Local climate

Stapleford Hall Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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