Wrens Park is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1981. House.
Wrens Park
- WRENN ID
- standing-portal-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wrens Park, North Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 673 842
- Coordinates
- 51.5321, 0.4111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wrens Park is a 17th-century house located on North Hill in Horndon-on-the-Hill. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high and features a four-window range with double hung vertical sliding sashes that include glazing bars and a Tudor style drip mould. There is a single door hood above the entrance. The house has red brick chimney stacks from both the 17th and 19th centuries. At the rear, there are two gabled extensions that have casement windows.
Local climate
Wrens Park sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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