The Wobbin is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Wobbin
- WRENN ID
- silver-lantern-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Wobbin, Mell Road, Tollesbury, CM9 8SS
- OS grid reference
- TL 961 097
- Coordinates
- 51.75227, 0.84026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wobbin is a pair of cottages that have been combined, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with some sections tile-hung, and it has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features four bays facing southwest, with an internal stack at each end. There is a 19th-century single-storey extension at the right end, which has an internal end stack and is roofed with machine-made red clay tiles. A lean-to shed at the left end is timber framed, weatherboarded, and roofed with red clay 'Rowan' tiles; it now serves as a garage. The structure is one storey with attics and includes four 20th-century casement windows, along with four additional casement windows in lean-to dormers that are slated above and on the sides. There is one 20th-century half-glazed door, one plain boarded door with a shallow hood supported by profiled brackets, and a plain boarded door in the right extension. The building has a gambrel roof, and the left chimney shaft is cement-rendered. The rear elevation is hung with 19th-century red clay tiles, and there is a face-halved and bladed scarf in the rear wallplate. The property also features 20th-century grates.
Local climate
The Wobbin 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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