Wardens House Outbuilding Adjoining Road and Approximately 25 Metres South West of House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Outbuilding.

Wardens House Outbuilding Adjoining Road and Approximately 25 Metres South West of House

WRENN ID
late-paling-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1984
Type
Outbuilding
OS grid reference
TL 806 340
Coordinates
51.97514, 0.62916
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wardens House Outbuilding, dating from the 18th to 19th century, is located approximately 25 meters southwest of the main house along Little Maplestead Road. This outbuilding features a timber frame with plaster and a red brick wall dressed with flint at the road front. It has a red plain tiled roof and plastered bays on both the left and right sides. The center of the building includes an open bay with double doors, while the left bay has a vertically boarded door with cross transoms on both sides. Inside, there is a side purlin roof and hanging knees supporting the tie beams, with a brick floor throughout.

Local climate

Wardens House Outbuilding Adjoining Road and Approximately 25 Metres South West of 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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