Wardens House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. House.
Wardens House
- WRENN ID
- low-ledge-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wardens House, Little Maplestead Road, Great Maplestead
- OS grid reference
- TL 806 340
- Coordinates
- 51.97537, 0.62936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wardens House is a house that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building features two crosswings and rear ranges, along with elaborate pierced barge boards on the gables and eaves. An off-centre red brick chimney stack has been rebuilt with four octagonal shafts. The house has two storeys, with a window arrangement of 1:2:1 on the first floor and 1:1:2 on the ground floor, which includes a two-storey red tiled bay to the left. Most of the windows are 19th or 20th century vertical sliding sashes, while the bay has casements. To the right of the bay, there is a gabled porch with barge boards, featuring double doors that are panelled with three lights.
Local climate
Wardens House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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