Pickerells Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1983. House. 1 related planning application.

Pickerells Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-facade-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochford
Constituency
Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1983
Type
House
Address
Pickerells Farmhouse, Highlands Road, Rawreth, SS11 8TL
OS grid reference
TQ 798 946
Coordinates
51.62213, 0.5962
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pickerells Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is primarily timber framed and plastered, with some areas of plastered brick, and features a red plain tiled roof. The house has a central red brick chimney stack with attached diagonal shafts. It stands two storeys high with attics, and has three first-floor windows and two ground-floor windows on the right and left, which are a mix of three-light vertically sliding sashes and casements, along with a fixed central first-floor light. The entrance features a central vertically boarded door with a top light and moulded pilasters, leading to a gabled red tiled porch.

Inside, there are back-to-back fireplaces on the first and ground floors. The first-floor fireplaces have moulded brick Tudor arches and semi-circular backs, while the ground floor right fireplace has a moulded stone fireplace with a Tudor arch; the left room's fireplace is now blocked but is said to be similar. The house retains original plain windows and moulded mullion windows, as well as rail and muntin doors. Notable internal features include stop-chamfered bridging joists, heavy wall studs, original stairs, and a built-in settle with incised patera and foliate motifs, which are also repeated on the first-floor doorway. Additionally, there are two 18th-century corner cupboards and a framed side purlin roof with a halved and bladed top plate scarf. The farmhouse is sometimes referred to as Pickerel's.

Local climate

Pickerells Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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