Assers is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.

Assers

WRENN ID
burning-sentry-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Assers, Good Easter, CM1 4RL
OS grid reference
TL 631 130
Coordinates
51.79248, 0.36383
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Assers is a house that was formerly two tenements, dating from the 15th century with alterations from the 17th century and a 20th-century extension. It features a timber frame that is plastered externally, topped with a clay peg tile roof, and has two storeys. The building has a three-window range with various 20th-century casements. It follows a traditional crosswing and hall plan, although the original aspect of the house has been reversed.

Most of the frame of the crosswing remains intact and is made of high-quality oak, featuring jowled storey posts, diamond mullioned windows, and external bracing. The crosswing jetties out to the east. Inside, there is a simple crown post roof that was originally hipped and gabled to the west, but both ends are now gabled. The building includes chamfered bridging joists with run-out stops and soffit tenons to the floor joists. The crosswing consists of two bays, with one bay of the original open hall still present. An inserted floor features moulded bridging joists and floor joists with hollow chamfers and a central roll. The roof has been raised, and the rebuilt roof has a hip to the south. There are remnants of a green formal foliate design on one high end of the hall.

Local climate

Assers 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • 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
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