Maypole House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 2005. House. 5 related planning applications.

Maypole House

WRENN ID
late-granite-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 2005
Type
House
Address
Maypole House, St Johns Green, Writtle, CM1 3DZ
OS grid reference
TL 679 063
Coordinates
51.73065, 0.42996
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Maypole House is a house that dates from the 14th century, 16th century, and late 18th century, with restoration carried out in the late 20th century. It features a combination of brick and timber framing, topped with a hipped plain tiled roof. The house has a brick ridge chimney stack and an external brick stack on the right side. It is two stories tall, with the main front showcasing a central doorway that has a moulded and painted door surround supported by brackets and a flat hood. On either side of the doorway are single glazing bar sash windows. Above this, there is a decorative brick band, and further up, two more glazing bar sash windows are located at the eaves. The rear of the house includes lean-to additions and a late 20th-century conservatory.

Inside the rear wing, the original 14th-century timber framing is still visible. This part of the house was once the two-bay cross-wing of a hall house. The western half of the roof remains intact, featuring a central crownpost and tiebeam, although much of the eastern half was removed when the front was altered to a hipped design in the late 18th century. Some posts, sections of the walls, and a part of the ceiling with its joists are still preserved, though later decoration makes it challenging to determine the full extent of the surviving timber frame. Behind this former cross-wing, there is a 16th-century brick range with a large brick stack.

Local climate

Maypole House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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