Lower Hockley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1986. A Post-Medieval House. 8 related planning applications.
Lower Hockley Hall
- WRENN ID
- rusted-tower-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Lower Hockley Hall, Lower Road, SS5 5LT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 837 943
- Coordinates
- 51.61819, 0.65227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Hockley Hall is a house of medieval origin, with substantial rebuilding in the 17th and 18th centuries, and a 19th-century plastered brick front range. The rear range is timber-framed and plastered. The building has red plain tiled roofs and a rear centre red brick chimney stack.
The front range is two storeys high and built of red brick with rusticated quoins and a moulded eaves cornice. It has a three-window front with vertically sliding sash windows containing glazing bars and labels above. A red tiled gabled porch provides access to a panelled door leading to the rear of the right return.
The rear range is one storey high with attics. Internally, the rear range rooms feature central bridging joists and some storey posts are visible. There are later, heavy vine mouldings to the bridging joists and cornice in a ground floor room, along with coved ceilings on both the ground and first floors. The site was one of the manors held by Sweyne and later assigned by Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves.
Local climate
Lower Hockley Hall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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