The Old Ferry House and Range to Right is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Ferry House and Range to Right
- WRENN ID
- drifting-gravel-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Ferry House and Range to Right, Farmbridge Road, Ashingdon
- OS grid reference
- TQ 854 959
- Coordinates
- 51.63216, 0.67878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Ferry House, located on Fambridge Road in Ashingdon, is a house dating from the late 18th century, though it has earlier origins. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped roof covered with red plain tiles. The building stands two storeys tall, with an outshot to the left and a single-storey weatherboarded range to the right. There are various rear ranges, and the gutters are supported by wooden brackets.
The front of the house has a three-window arrangement consisting of small paned vertically sliding sashes with gauged segmental heads. An off-centre, right-positioned four-panelled door is framed with a moulded surround, a frieze, and a dentilled open pediment on brackets. To the left of the outshot, there is a single window, while the right range features two fixed windows and vertically boarded doors on either side.
Inside, notable features include stop-chamfered bridging joists, several simple 18th-century fireplaces, and a 19th-century repositioned staircase, along with an original stair turret at the rear. The 18th-century roof has a steeply cambered tie beam with large brace mortices, likely dating from before the mid-15th century, and includes many re-used sooted rafters.
Local climate
The Old Ferry House and Range to Right receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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