Little Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. A C16 House.
Little Lodge
- WRENN ID
- veiled-garret-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
- Little Lodge, Little Maplestead Road, Great Maplestead, CO9 2SL
- OS grid reference
- TL 816 342
- Coordinates
- 51.9771, 0.64408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Lodge is a house dating from the mid-16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a red plain tiled roof that is hipped and sprocketed with gablets. An off-centre red brick chimney stack is present. The house has two storeys, with a range of four windows on the first floor and five on the ground floor, all of which are square leaded vari-light windows. Some of these windows have 17th-century ironwork set within 20th-century frames. There is a 20th-century enclosed gabled porch with a red tiled roof. The original entrance is a nailed four-board side door. The building consists of four bays with stop-chamfered bridging joists, soffit tenons with diminished haunches, and some serpentine braces on the walls. It features jowled storey posts supporting the original lean-to and an arch-braced side purlin roof. Inside, there is an original red brick fireplace on the first floor, complete with a chamfered mantel beam above.
Local climate
Little Lodge 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings