Great Tomkyns is a Grade II* listed building in the Havering local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1955. Hall house. 6 related planning applications.
Great Tomkyns
- WRENN ID
- eternal-plaster-plum
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Havering
- Constituency
- Hornchurch and Upminster MP: Julia Lopez (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1955
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Great Tomkyns, Tomkyns Lane, RM14 1TP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 566 895
- Coordinates
- 51.58278, 0.26
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Tomkyns is a 16th and 17th century hall house located on Tomkyns Lane in Upminster. The building features two storeyed jettied wings and a central hall with a single storey front wall. The western part of the front wall is modern, while the eastern part retains an original oak 3-light window and a modern door with a 4-centred head, which originally led to the screens passage. Two internal service doors from this passage remain. The east wing showcases arched braces, a bressumer, and a wall plate, while the later west wing has diagonal braces on the upper floor. The windows throughout are generally made of oak with mullions and transoms, including some older examples, although there is one modern Georgian-style sash window on the ground floor of the west wing. The roof is tiled and hipped towards the front of the wings, with end stacks and an additional stack at the upper west end of the hall. The west elevation is partially rendered.
Local climate
Great Tomkyns sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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