High House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House.
High House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-niche-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- High House, the Street, Ashen
- OS grid reference
- TL 746 424
- Coordinates
- 52.05251, 0.54643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High House is an 18th-century house located on the east side of The Street in Ashen. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building is aligned north-south and features an axial chimney stack on the west side. It has two storeys. The ground floor includes a plain boarded door, one 19th-century casement window, and one 20th-century metal casement window. On the first floor, there are two late 18th-century or early 19th-century three-light windows with pintle hinges for the central casement, which were replaced in the 20th century. The north gable displays a band of dogtooth ornamental plaster.
Local climate
High House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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