Wade's Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. House.
Wade's Gardens
- WRENN ID
- gilded-screen-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wade's Gardens, 1 and 2, Ewen Bridge Road, Shalford
- OS grid reference
- TL 731 285
- Coordinates
- 51.92818, 0.5165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wade's Gardens is a house that has been divided into two residences. It dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 17th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and roughcast rendered, topped with handmade red clay tiles. It features a three-bay crosswing from the 16th century or earlier, alongside a three-bay main range to the left, which is from the early 17th century, facing northeast. There is a 20th-century internal stack at the junction of the two sections, and a 17th or 18th-century axial stack in the main range. At the rear, there are two single-storey extensions. The house is two storeys high, with four 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and four more on the first floor, along with one oval fixed light. The main stack has recessed panels on each face. Notable features include original sprockets below the eaves of the right return wall and the rear of the main range, as well as jowled posts. The rear bay of the crosswing was originally separated from the rest of the house; this partition has been removed on the ground floor, but some studding remains on the first floor. Inside, there is a cambered tiebeam with two arched braces and an inserted ceiling that does not provide access to the roof. The main range also has chamfered transverse beams with jewel stops.
Local climate
Wade's Gardens sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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