Ponders Lodge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Ponders Lodge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-plaster-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ponders Lodge Farmhouse, Dunmow Road, Fyfield, CM5 0NN
- OS grid reference
- TL 572 071
- Coordinates
- 51.74113, 0.27549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ponders Lodge Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a hipped roof made of red plain tiles. The building has two storeys and an overall T-shaped plan. The façade features a range of four windows, which include 19th-century casements and vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars and sidelights. There is a long wall jetty, which is underbuilt at the north end. A 16th-century red brick chimney stack is present, although it has been partially rebuilt at the top. Inside, the original frame is intact, showcasing a crown post roof.
Local climate
Ponders Lodge Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 — 1 application
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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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