The Ferns House is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1973. House. 9 related planning applications.
The Ferns House
- WRENN ID
- stark-floor-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Ferns House, Hockley Road, Rayleigh, SS6 8EB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 808 908
- Coordinates
- 51.58789, 0.60944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ferns House is an 18th-century house with later alterations. It is timber-framed, with walls faced in gault brick and returns and rear weatherboarded. The roof is covered in red plain tiles, and a central chimney stack is built of red brick. The house has two storeys and attics, with two segmental-headed dormers in the roof. It has a two-window front with small-paned vertically sliding sash windows, each with shutters. A three-step approach leads to the central entrance, which features a four-panelled door with a two-light upper panel, a moulded surround, a frieze, and a moulded pediment.
Local climate
The Ferns House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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